Route brief · ROM → ALC
Rome → Alicante
$67
−33% vs typical
seasonal median $100 · difference $33
Dec 6 – Dec 20 · 14 nights
Wizz Air MaltaNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $85–$99
- Board rank
- Stronger than 83%
- Route sample
- 4 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 4 months, Dec is the cheapest for ROM → ALC. Best time to be there: May–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in December around $67 and peak in September near $119 — a $52 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Wizz Air Malta nonstop and takes about 2.5 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip. At $67 for 1,170 km each way, that works out to about $29 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 6 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Alicante, this fare ranks 2nd — 52% above the $44 from Milan. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 14 routes of similar length we watch out of Rome, where the middle fare is $67.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 6% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $145 then versus $137 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 $64, on Sep 22.
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 Dec · around $67
33% below the $100 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Rome → Alicante · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA) ↔ Alicante–Elche (ALC)
- Flight time
- ~2.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,170 km each way
- Typical price
- $100 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air Malta
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
ROM → ALC, answered.
Is $67 a good price for Rome to Alicante?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $100 round-trip. At $67 you're 33% below that, saving about $33, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Rome to Alicante?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Dec 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 ROM → 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 4 months of cached fares, Dec comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Rome to Alicante?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Wizz Air Malta). The outbound leg runs around 2.5 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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