VacationSelector

Alicante or Mostar?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Mostar
32
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration 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.

AlicanteMostar
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 77 points.77
AlicanteMostar
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km337
Coast distance1 km44 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 47 points.47
AlicanteMostar
Score6619
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867117
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km319
Museums & heritage. Alicante leads by 6 points.6
AlicanteMostar
Score4236
Museums within 10 km1413
Museums within 2 km of centre1112
Share of museums within 2 km %7992
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 29 points.29
AlicanteMostar
Score5122
Drinking venues within 4 km591154
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488147
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8395
Nightclubs within 4 km548
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 31 points.31
AlicanteMostar
Score409
Protected land share 50 km %76
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %5999
Park area within 2 km60 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Alicante leads by 27 points.27
AlicanteMostar
Score4215
Tourist attractions within 2 km1310
Park area within 2 km60 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Mostar leads by 10 points.10
AlicanteMostar
Score2636
Notable places within 2 km1831
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mostar leads by 17 points.17
AlicanteMostar
Score7188
Price level global60.837.4
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 26 points.26
AlicanteMostar
Score8761
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C9.3 °C to 33.4 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm54 mm to 198 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
Mostar
9
12
16
20
25
30
33
33
27
22
15
10
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Mostar
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Mostar
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Mostar
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Mostar
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Mostar: 1991-2020 normals, Mostar (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteMostar
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 50 m
€96-151
ALC · 10 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DBV · 95 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 15 m
€110-130
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
2 h 15 m
€163-216
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 40 m
€122-139
ALC · 10 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SJJ · 68 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 20 m
€88-91
ALC · 10 km
1 h 45 m
€162-215
1 stop
SJJ · 68 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 127 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 68 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 95 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

MeasureAlicanteMostar
Official languageSpanishCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m60 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)68 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteMostar
City population366,221105,448
People per km²1,81990
Museums within 10 km83
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre5218
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.