VacationSelector

Alicante or Los Angeles?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Alicante
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Los Angeles
53
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AlicanteLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 48 points.48
AlicanteLos Angeles
Score7729
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km330
Coast distance1 km—
Water distance1 km—
Beaches 25 km—11
Warmest sea temp—20.2 °C
Scoring variant—beachScoreWideRing
Declared—2026-08-25
Register—seed/editorial-overrides.json
Places to eat. Alicante and Los Angeles are level on 66.
AlicanteLos Angeles
Score6666
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8671,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3122
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 7 points.7
AlicanteLos Angeles
Score4249
Museums within 10 km1469
Museums within 2 km of centre1123
Share of museums within 2 km %7933
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 3 points.3
AlicanteLos Angeles
Score5154
Drinking venues within 4 km591660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8365
Nightclubs within 4 km5464
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 22 points.22
AlicanteLos Angeles
Score4062
Protected land share 50 km %726
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5980
Park area within 2 km60 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Alicante leads by 9 points.9
AlicanteLos Angeles
Score4233
Tourist attractions within 2 km1311
Park area within 2 km60 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 28 points.28
AlicanteLos Angeles
Score2654
Notable places within 2 km1888
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante leads by 28 points.28
AlicanteLos Angeles
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122—
Year-round weather. Alicante and Los Angeles are level on 87.
AlicanteLos Angeles
Score8787
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm0 mm to 76 mm
Dry months118
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Alicante
17
18
20
22
24
28
30
31
29
25
21
18
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Los Angeles
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteLos Angeles
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€72-86
ALC · 10 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 20 m
€88-91
ALC · 10 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
DublinDUB
2 h 45 m
€98-122
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 15 m
€110-130
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€102-136
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 127 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAlicanteLos Angeles
Official languageSpanish–
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m106 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteLos Angeles
City population366,2213,898,747
People per km²1,8192,994
Museums within 10 km838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre5246
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.