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Alicante or Oslo?

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

Oslo
56
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips 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.

AlicanteOslo
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 17 points.17
AlicanteOslo
Score7760
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km33163
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 1 points.1
AlicanteOslo
Score6667
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3134
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 6 points.6
AlicanteOslo
Score4248
Museums within 10 km1470
Museums within 2 km of centre1137
Share of museums within 2 km %7953
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 2 points.2
AlicanteOslo
Score5153
Drinking venues within 4 km591695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8381
Nightclubs within 4 km5441
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 21 points.21
AlicanteOslo
Score4061
Protected land share 50 km %722
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %5994
Park area within 2 km60 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Oslo leads by 6 points.6
AlicanteOslo
Score4248
Tourist attractions within 2 km1313
Park area within 2 km60 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 43 points.43
AlicanteOslo
Score2669
Notable places within 2 km18207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante leads by 17 points.17
AlicanteOslo
Score7154
Price level global60.885.1
Daily budget€122€203
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 39 points.39
AlicanteOslo
Score8748
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm40 mm to 104 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
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteOslo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 15 m
€110-130
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 50 m
€96-151
ALC · 10 km
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
3 h 15 m
€109-152
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 20 m
€88-91
ALC · 10 km
1 h 55 m
€51-85
OSL · 37 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

MeasureAlicanteOslo
Official languageSpanishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation3 m23 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteOslo
City population366,221717,710
People per km²1,819–
Museums within 10 km860
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre5275
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.