VacationSelector

Alicante or Munich?

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, 1 point apart

Alicante
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Munich
57
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families 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.

AlicanteMunich
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 77 points.77
AlicanteMunich
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km336
Coast distance1 km579 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Munich leads by 7 points.7
AlicanteMunich
Score6673
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8671,280
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3135
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 19 points.19
AlicanteMunich
Score4261
Museums within 10 km1474
Museums within 2 km of centre1148
Share of museums within 2 km %7965
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Munich leads by 16 points.16
AlicanteMunich
Score5167
Drinking venues within 4 km5911,335
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488763
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8357
Nightclubs within 4 km54103
Nature & day trips. Munich leads by 8 points.8
AlicanteMunich
Score4048
Protected land share 50 km %717
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %59100
Park area within 2 km60 hectares199 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 37 points.37
AlicanteMunich
Score4279
Tourist attractions within 2 km1380
Park area within 2 km60 hectares199 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 42 points.42
AlicanteMunich
Score2668
Notable places within 2 km18196
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante leads by 11 points.11
AlicanteMunich
Score7160
Price level global60.875.9
Daily budget€122€163
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 31 points.31
AlicanteMunich
Score8756
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C4 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm46 mm to 121 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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Munich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteMunich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 29 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 25 m
€227-267
MUC · 29 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 29 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€72-86
ALC · 10 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 50 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 127 km
7 h 55 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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

MeasureAlicanteMunich
Official languageSpanishGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m519 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteMunich
City population366,2211,510,378
People per km²1,8194,861
Museums within 10 km874
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre5289
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.