Route brief · DUB → ALC
Dublin → Alicante
$87
−58% vs typical
seasonal median $205 · difference $118
Oct 5 – Oct 14 · 9 nights
RyanairNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $94–$218
- Board rank
- Stronger than 98%
- Route sample
- 6 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefALCAlicanteA castle on a rock over a working Mediterranean city — and the cheapest fares on the Spanish coast.Best windowMay–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsAlicante–Elche (ALC)All routes into AlicanteWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 6 months, Oct is the cheapest for DUB → ALC. Best time to be there: May–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $87 and peak in December near $330 — a $243 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Ryanair nonstop and takes about 3 hours outbound, on a 9-night trip. At $87 for 1,726 km each way, that works out to about $25 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $41 that short-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 9 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Alicante, this fare ranks 3rd — 1.9× the $47 we hold from London. It is also the 3rd cheapest of the 19 routes of similar length we watch out of Dublin.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 5% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $146 then versus $138 now, across 5 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $107, on Sep 9.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Cheapest in Oct · around $87
58% below the $205 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Dublin → Alicante · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Dublin (DUB) ↔ Alicante–Elche (ALC)
- Flight time
- ~3 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,726 km each way
- Typical price
- $205 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
DUB → ALC, answered.
Is $87 a good price for Dublin to Alicante?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $205 round-trip. At $87 you're 58% below that, saving about $118, which we rate exceptional for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Dublin to Alicante?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Alicante are May–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book DUB → Alicante?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 6 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Dublin to Alicante?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Ryanair). The outbound leg runs around 3 hours.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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