VacationSelector

Alicante or Prague?

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

Your match

Alicante
56
match

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

Prague
✓ Best match
62
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.

AlicantePrague
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 77 points.77
AlicantePrague
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km337
Coast distance1 km10,000 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Prague leads by 9 points.9
AlicantePrague
Score6675
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8671,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3129
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 30 points.30
AlicantePrague
Score4272
Museums within 10 km14138
Museums within 2 km of centre11100
Share of museums within 2 km %7972
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Prague leads by 26 points.26
AlicantePrague
Score5177
Drinking venues within 4 km5912,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4881,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8365
Nightclubs within 4 km54123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 5 points.5
AlicantePrague
Score4045
Protected land share 50 km %712
Landscape blanket share 50 km %08
Land share of disc %59100
Park area within 2 km60 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 33 points.33
AlicantePrague
Score4275
Tourist attractions within 2 km1354
Park area within 2 km60 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 50 points.50
AlicantePrague
Score2676
Notable places within 2 km18310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 4 points.4
AlicantePrague
Score7175
Price level global60.855.2
Daily budget€122€107
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 26 points.26
AlicantePrague
Score8761
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm22 mm to 80 mm
Dry months117
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
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
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). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicantePrague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 30 m
€61-116
PRG · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
BristolBRS
2 h 25 m
€66-103
ALC · 10 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 12 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 50 m
€96-151
ALC · 10 km
1 h 55 m
€91-151
PRG · 12 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 50 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
PRG · 12 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

MeasureAlicantePrague
Official languageSpanishCzech
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m235 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicantePrague
City population366,2211,397,880
People per km²1,8192,817
Museums within 10 km888
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. 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.