VacationSelector

Alicante or Toronto?

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, 2 points apart

Alicante
56
match

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

Toronto
54
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife 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.

AlicanteToronto
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 34 points.34
AlicanteToronto
Score7743
Swim season months51
Beaches 10 km3358
Coast distance1 km533 km
Water distance1 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 16 points.16
AlicanteToronto
Score6682
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8672,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3139
Museums & heritage. Toronto leads by 1 points.1
AlicanteToronto
Score4243
Museums within 10 km1435
Museums within 2 km of centre1125
Share of museums within 2 km %7971
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 18 points.18
AlicanteToronto
Score5169
Drinking venues within 4 km5911,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8364
Nightclubs within 4 km54103
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 14 points.14
AlicanteToronto
Score4026
Protected land share 50 km %72
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %59100
Park area within 2 km60 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 15 points.15
AlicanteToronto
Score4257
Tourist attractions within 2 km1323
Park area within 2 km60 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 35 points.35
AlicanteToronto
Score2661
Notable places within 2 km18128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante leads by 17 points.17
AlicanteToronto
Score7154
Price level global60.884
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 32 points.32
AlicanteToronto
Score8755
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm51 mm to 85 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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Toronto
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
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteToronto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
DublinDUB
2 h 45 m
€98-122
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 127 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€102-136
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
9 h 0 m
€507-623
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 50 m
€96-151
ALC · 10 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 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

MeasureAlicanteToronto
Official languageSpanishFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m76 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteToronto
City population366,2212,794,356
People per km²1,8194,434
Museums within 10 km832
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre52102
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months1 month

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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.