VacationSelector

Alicante or Miami?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Alicante
56
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Miami
56
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

AlicanteMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 18 points.18
AlicanteMiami
Score7795
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km3320
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 1 points.1
AlicanteMiami
Score6665
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3129
Museums & heritage. Alicante leads by 19 points.19
AlicanteMiami
Score4223
Museums within 10 km1428
Museums within 2 km of centre116
Share of museums within 2 km %7921
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 1 points.1
AlicanteMiami
Score5150
Drinking venues within 4 km591538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8353
Nightclubs within 4 km5463
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 32 points.32
AlicanteMiami
Score4072
Protected land share 50 km %716
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5948
Park area within 2 km60 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Miami leads by 2 points.2
AlicanteMiami
Score4244
Tourist attractions within 2 km1314
Park area within 2 km60 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Miami leads by 16 points.16
AlicanteMiami
Score2642
Notable places within 2 km1845
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante leads by 28 points.28
AlicanteMiami
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 13 points.13
AlicanteMiami
Score8774
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm47 mm to 267 mm
Dry months110
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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Miami
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). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteMiami
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€72-86
ALC · 10 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 50 m
€96-151
ALC · 10 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 20 m
€88-91
ALC · 10 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
DublinDUB
2 h 45 m
€98-122
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€62-83
ALC · 10 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 127 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 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

MeasureAlicanteMiami
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m2 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteMiami
City population366,221442,241
People per km²1,8193,046
Museums within 10 km817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre5239
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 months

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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.