VacationSelector

Alicante or West Palm Beach?

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 nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

AlicanteWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 11 points.11
AlicanteWest Palm Beach
Score7788
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km3310
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 29 points.29
AlicanteWest Palm Beach
Score6637
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3114
Museums & heritage. Alicante leads by 25 points.25
AlicanteWest Palm Beach
Score4217
Museums within 10 km145
Museums within 2 km of centre113
Share of museums within 2 km %7960
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Alicante leads by 31 points.31
AlicanteWest Palm Beach
Score5120
Drinking venues within 4 km591132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre48890
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8368
Nightclubs within 4 km5410
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 29 points.29
AlicanteWest Palm Beach
Score4069
Protected land share 50 km %715
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5945
Park area within 2 km60 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Alicante leads by 21 points.21
AlicanteWest Palm Beach
Score4221
Tourist attractions within 2 km133
Park area within 2 km60 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Alicante leads by 14 points.14
AlicanteWest Palm Beach
Score2612
Notable places within 2 km188
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante leads by 28 points.28
AlicanteWest Palm Beach
Score7143
Price level global60.8100
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 12 points.12
AlicanteWest Palm Beach
Score8775
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
West Palm Beach
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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteWest Palm Beach
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€72-86
ALC · 10 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 50 m
€96-151
ALC · 10 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 20 m
€88-91
ALC · 10 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DublinDUB
2 h 45 m
€98-122
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€62-83
ALC · 10 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 127 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
DJT · 6 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

MeasureAlicanteWest Palm Beach
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m6 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteWest Palm Beach
City population366,221117,415
People per km²1,819786
Museums within 10 km84
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre5218
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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.