Route brief · ZRH → ALC
Zurich → Alicante
$161
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 16 – Oct 20 · 4 nights
Condor1 stop
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.
Best time to be in Alicante: May–Jun · Sep–Oct. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 3 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip — ticketed under Condor, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $161 for 1,242 km each way, that works out to about $65 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 8 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Alicante, this fare ranks 7th — 3.7× the $44 we hold from Milan. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 11 routes of similar length we watch out of Zurich, where the middle fare is $168. We have 3 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $214 then versus $221 now, across 6 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 $171, on Oct 5.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 9 of 93 days priced, from 30 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Route facts
- Airports
- Zurich (ZRH) ↔ Alicante–Elche (ALC)
- Flight time
- ~3 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,242 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Condor
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
ZRH → ALC, answered.
How far in advance should I book ZRH → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Zurich to Alicante?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Condor. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
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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