VacationSelector

Alicante or Tromso?

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 year-round weather and nightlife with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

AlicanteTromso
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 25 points.25
AlicanteTromso
Score7752
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km3314
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 42 points.42
AlicanteTromso
Score6624
Restaurants within 2 km of centre86785
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3116
Museums & heritage. Alicante leads by 19 points.19
AlicanteTromso
Score4223
Museums within 10 km1410
Museums within 2 km of centre118
Share of museums within 2 km %7980
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 44 points.44
AlicanteTromso
Score517
Drinking venues within 4 km59167
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre48861
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8391
Nightclubs within 4 km545
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 29 points.29
AlicanteTromso
Score4011
Protected land share 50 km %79
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %5965
Park area within 2 km60 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Alicante leads by 28 points.28
AlicanteTromso
Score4214
Tourist attractions within 2 km139
Park area within 2 km60 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Tromso leads by 2 points.2
AlicanteTromso
Score2628
Notable places within 2 km1820
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante leads by 17 points.17
AlicanteTromso
Score7154
Price level global60.885.1
Daily budget€122€203
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 54 points.54
AlicanteTromso
Score8733
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm56 mm to 128 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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F
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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Alicante
17
18
20
22
24
28
30
31
29
25
21
18
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 15 m
€110-130
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
4 h 15 m
€205-254
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
3 h 20 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 50 m
€96-151
ALC · 10 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 127 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 10 m
€178-205
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
2 h 55 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 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

MeasureAlicanteTromso
Official languageSpanishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation3 m20 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteTromso
City population366,22179,943
People per km²1,81932
Museums within 10 km88
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre5223
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. 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.