VacationSelector

Alicante or Vienna?

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.

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
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.

AlicanteVienna
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 77 points.77
AlicanteVienna
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km3322
Coast distance1 km10,000 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 11 points.11
AlicanteVienna
Score6677
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8671,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3137
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 39 points.39
AlicanteVienna
Score4281
Museums within 10 km14192
Museums within 2 km of centre11110
Share of museums within 2 km %7957
Unesco sites within 50 km23
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 23 points.23
AlicanteVienna
Score5174
Drinking venues within 4 km5911,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4881,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8356
Nightclubs within 4 km54108
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 8 points.8
AlicanteVienna
Score4032
Protected land share 50 km %74
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %59100
Park area within 2 km60 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 27 points.27
AlicanteVienna
Score4269
Tourist attractions within 2 km1346
Park area within 2 km60 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 49 points.49
AlicanteVienna
Score2675
Notable places within 2 km18287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante leads by 12 points.12
AlicanteVienna
Score7159
Price level global60.876.9
Daily budget€122€160
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 26 points.26
AlicanteVienna
Score8761
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months111
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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 45 m
€63-153
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
2 h 15 m
€117-169
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€62-83
ALC · 10 km
1 h 25 m
€49-71
VIE · 18 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 50 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 127 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
VIE · 18 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

MeasureAlicanteVienna
Official languageSpanishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m151 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteVienna
City population366,2212,028,289
People per km²1,8194,890
Museums within 10 km8152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Distinct cuisines in the centre52113
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. 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.