VacationSelector

Alicante or Stockholm?

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

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
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.

AlicanteStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 17 points.17
AlicanteStockholm
Score7760
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km3373
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 10 points.10
AlicanteStockholm
Score6676
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8671,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3136
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 27 points.27
AlicanteStockholm
Score4269
Museums within 10 km1474
Museums within 2 km of centre1147
Share of museums within 2 km %7964
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 13 points.13
AlicanteStockholm
Score5164
Drinking venues within 4 km5911,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8363
Nightclubs within 4 km54106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 1 points.1
AlicanteStockholm
Score4041
Protected land share 50 km %77
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5977
Park area within 2 km60 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 15 points.15
AlicanteStockholm
Score4257
Tourist attractions within 2 km1323
Park area within 2 km60 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 53 points.53
AlicanteStockholm
Score2679
Notable places within 2 km18357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante leads by 14 points.14
AlicanteStockholm
Score7157
Price level global60.880.3
Daily budget€122€169
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 34 points.34
AlicanteStockholm
Score8753
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months115
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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Stockholm
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
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 40 m
€122-139
ALC · 10 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 15 m
€110-130
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
2 h 10 m
€50-80
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
4 h 15 m
€205-254
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
3 h 25 m
€90-234
ARN · 36 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 50 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
ARN · 36 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

MeasureAlicanteStockholm
Official languageSpanishSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m22 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteStockholm
City population366,221984,748
People per km²1,8195,260
Museums within 10 km8266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre5281
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.