VacationSelector

Alicante or Warsaw?

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.

Warsaw
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families 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.

AlicanteWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 77 points.77
AlicanteWarsaw
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km3326
Coast distance1 km238 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Warsaw leads by 6 points.6
AlicanteWarsaw
Score6672
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8671,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3134
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 21 points.21
AlicanteWarsaw
Score4263
Museums within 10 km14107
Museums within 2 km of centre1160
Share of museums within 2 km %7956
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Warsaw leads by 11 points.11
AlicanteWarsaw
Score5162
Drinking venues within 4 km5911,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8364
Nightclubs within 4 km54104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 15 points.15
AlicanteWarsaw
Score4055
Protected land share 50 km %727
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %59100
Park area within 2 km60 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 28 points.28
AlicanteWarsaw
Score4270
Tourist attractions within 2 km1342
Park area within 2 km60 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 50 points.50
AlicanteWarsaw
Score2676
Notable places within 2 km18299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 8 points.8
AlicanteWarsaw
Score7179
Price level global60.849
Daily budget€122€133
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 28 points.28
AlicanteWarsaw
Score8759
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months116
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
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
WMI · 35 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 40 m
€122-139
ALC · 10 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 15 m
€110-130
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 50 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
WAW · 8 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

MeasureAlicanteWarsaw
Official languageSpanishPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m118 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteWarsaw
City population366,2211,862,402
People per km²1,8193,601
Museums within 10 km8117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre5276
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. 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.