VacationSelector

Alicante or Pisa?

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.

Pisa
45
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

AlicantePisa
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 56 points.56
AlicantePisa
Score7721
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km331
Coast distance1 km10 km
Water distance1 km10 km
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 32 points.32
AlicantePisa
Score6634
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867379
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km319
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 13 points.13
AlicantePisa
Score4255
Museums within 10 km1427
Museums within 2 km of centre1122
Share of museums within 2 km %7981
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 23 points.23
AlicantePisa
Score5128
Drinking venues within 4 km591232
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488203
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8388
Nightclubs within 4 km543
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 1 points.1
AlicantePisa
Score4039
Protected land share 50 km %79
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5965
Park area within 2 km60 hectares40 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 5 points.5
AlicantePisa
Score4247
Tourist attractions within 2 km1320
Park area within 2 km60 hectares40 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Pisa leads by 21 points.21
AlicantePisa
Score2647
Notable places within 2 km1858
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante leads by 3 points.3
AlicantePisa
Score7168
Price level global60.864.9
Daily budget€122€155
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 17 points.17
AlicantePisa
Score8770
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months112
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
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Pisa
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
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicantePisa
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 40 m
no fares
VLC · 127 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€102-136
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
PalermoPMO
2 h 5 m
no fares
VLC · 127 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
EindhovenEIN
2 h 30 m
€153-216
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 50 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 4 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

MeasureAlicantePisa
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m4 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicantePisa
City population366,22188,737
People per km²1,819479
Museums within 10 km827
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre5229
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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.