VacationSelector

Alicante or Sorrento?

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 places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Sorrento
37
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AlicanteSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Alicante and Sorrento are level on 77.
AlicanteSorrento
Score7777
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km3378
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 47 points.47
AlicanteSorrento
Score6619
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km315
Museums & heritage. Alicante leads by 5 points.5
AlicanteSorrento
Score4237
Museums within 10 km147
Museums within 2 km of centre114
Share of museums within 2 km %7957
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 29 points.29
AlicanteSorrento
Score5122
Drinking venues within 4 km591179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8373
Nightclubs within 4 km542
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 17 points.17
AlicanteSorrento
Score4023
Protected land share 50 km %77
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5942
Park area within 2 km60 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Alicante leads by 37 points.37
AlicanteSorrento
Score425
Tourist attractions within 2 km132
Park area within 2 km60 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Alicante leads by 16 points.16
AlicanteSorrento
Score2610
Notable places within 2 km187
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante leads by 3 points.3
AlicanteSorrento
Score7168
Price level global60.864.9
Daily budget€122€155
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 14 points.14
AlicanteSorrento
Score8773
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months113
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
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Sorrento
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
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). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteSorrento
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€62-83
ALC · 10 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
2 h 15 m
€103-123
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€72-86
ALC · 10 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 50 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 127 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
NAP · 30 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

MeasureAlicanteSorrento
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 m50 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteSorrento
City population366,22115,407
People per km²1,8191,541
Museums within 10 km85
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre5211
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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.