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Flying to Benidorm
Benidorm has no airport: you land at Alicante (ALC), 64.5 km away. Every plane in and out of Alicante right now, UK and Irish flights in red.
Live · updated 17:01 Spanish time · 23 flights
Next to land at Alicante
Positions: ADSB.lol open data (ODbL 1.0), from aircraft transponders. Routes: Virtual Radar Server standing data (CC0), matched by call sign. Times are our estimate from distance and speed; the airline's app has the official time. Call signs are not always the flight number on your ticket.
Getting here · flights
Land at Alicante, then 45 minutes to Benidorm
Benidorm has no airport: you fly to Alicante (ALC), 64.5 km away by road. Direct flights leave from 23 UK airports and Ireland, take about 2 h 25 min to 3 h 20 min, and the €7.99 ALSA coach does the last 45 minutes. Plan your day, pick your airport, and see every route below.
- Nearest airport: Alicante (ALC)
- 64.5 km by road
- Coach €7.99
- Taxi €90–€100
- Spain is 1 hour ahead
Door to sunbed
Plan your travel day
Pick your airport, your date, who is coming and your take-off time. We work out when you land, the cheapest sensible way to your hotel for your group, the weather that month and any school holidays on your dates. Then the fare search opens with your dates filled in.
Your day
Airport to your hotel
Totals for your whole group. Coach €7.99 a seat (ALSA); taxi €90–€100 a car (Radio Taxi Benidorm, checked 20 Oct 2026); transfers and shuttles: each firm's lowest "from" price, checked 15 Oct 2026. Exact prices to your hotel: airport price estimator.
Flight time is our estimate from distance (airline timetables differ by 10–20 minutes). Two hours at the airport is our rule of thumb. Weather: Open-Meteo ERA5 averages 2016–2025. School holidays: council dates for England, Scotland and Wales, checked 16 Oct 2026. Passport and EES: GOV.UK.
What it costs
Prices, checked
About 45 min, one case each free, roughly hourly to about 23:00€7.99Private transfer, pre-booked
One car for up to four, to your hotel doorfrom €68Taxi from the rank
Radio Taxi Benidorm's own estimate, per car; the meter decides€90–€100Flights from the UK
Every airline on one search, Google FlightsCompareHotels for the same dates
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Coach: ALSA; transfers: each firm's lowest "from" price (checked 15 Oct 2026); taxi: Radio Taxi Benidorm (checked 20 Oct 2026). Air fares: we found no fare feed we are allowed to republish (Ryanair's fare API is closed to robots and Jet2's terms forbid copying), so we link to a live search instead. We earn a commission on some hotel bookings, at no extra cost to you: how we earn.
Nearest airport
Alicante, Valencia or Murcia?
Pick where you are staying. Alicante wins from every part of Benidorm, by more than 75 km.
| Alicante–Elche (ALC) | 64 km | 68 min |
| Valencia (VLC) | 149 km | 100 min |
| Murcia Corvera (RMU) | 148 km | 106 min |
Road distance and drive time from each airport terminal to the middle of that area: OSRM route planner on OpenStreetMap data, no traffic, checked 20 Oct 2026. The planner's times are cautious: the ALSA coach is timetabled at about 45 minutes from Alicante airport to Benidorm.
Before you fly
Six things to know
GOV.UK Spain entry requirements (page updated 12 Aug 2026, checked 20 Oct 2026); ALSA airport page (checked 15 Oct 2026).
Watch it first
Flying to Alicante for Benidorm on video
Real visits, filmed and posted by the people who went. Tap a video to play it here.
▶ 10:07BOEING 737 Stunning LANDING SPAIN ALICANTE Airport RWY10 | Cockpit View | Life Of An Airline PilotDutchPilotGirl · 311,357 views · Sep 2024
▶ 6:18Boeing 737-800 Cockpit Landing at ALICANTE | Pilot's View ILS Approach RW10 | GoPro 9GreatFlyer · 305,102 views · May 2023
▶ 12:52BOEING 737 Landing in sunny Alicante airport SPAIN RWY10 | cockpit view |737 Aviator · 30,231 views · Aug 2022
▶ 15:17Landing at Alicante Airport (ALC) 15/1/22I Was There / Evan Davis · 24,243 views · Jan 2022
▶ 10:38MY LANDING @ ALICANTE FROM DONCASTER AIRPORT (UK)Smarts Aviation · 17,425 views · Jul 2013
▶ 9:15PLANE LANDING AT ALICANTE AIRPORT (Tui flight from Doncaster Sheffield airport)Gimbal Walk TV · 14,557 views · Mar 2022
▶ 10:01How to get to BENIDORM from ALICANTE AIRPORT?Benidorm Enthusiast · 50,793 views · Jul 2025
▶ 14:18(4k) Alicante Airport to Benidorm bus, stop,tickets,views and airport guidance🇪🇸Travel by planes train and cruise · 34,468 views · Nov 2022
▶ 3:58We tried using the public bus from Alicante airport to Benidorm, how did we get on?Nigel and Nona's Adventures · 23,337 views · Feb 2025
▶ 15:50BENIDORM Travel Day - Ryanair via Alicante Airport BusScotsman Kevin · 12,137 views · Jun 2024On TikTok and Instagram
YouTube, TikTok and Instagram posts about Flying to Alicante for Benidorm, found 2026-10-20; most watched first. Not made by us, nothing copied: each plays from its own site. Players load only when you reach them or tap.
What the press says
From the papers
ALICANTE-ELCHE airport is set to smash its annual passenger record with possibly a month to spare.Alex Trelinski, the Olive Press, 14 Oct 2026
British travellers remained by far the airport's largest international market.Murcia Today, 15 Jul 2026
A direct bus from the airport to the holiday hotspot taking just 45 minutes.Natalie King and Liv Clarke, Manchester Evening News, 19 Nov 2025
Dozens of travellers have reported 'sailing through' at Alicante Airport, with friendly staff and well-functioning EES machines.Alessio Ghirlanda, the Olive Press, 15 Apr 2026
Short extracts, each linked to the full article. The Olive Press figures come from Aena, the airport operator.
Visitor voice
What travellers say
Counts from the public YouTube comments under the videos on this page (YouTube Data API, 2026-10-20): how many comments mention each theme. We count and summarise; we do not copy comments.
Route finder
Flights to Benidorm from every UK airport
Every UK and Irish airport with a direct Alicante route on Aena's list, busiest first. Tap an airport for its own page: airlines, seasons, the live board for that route and your door-to-sunbed plan.
| From | Airlines | Flight (our est.) | Year-round airlines | Passengers 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester MAN | easyJet, Jet2.com, Ryanair, TUI Airways | 2 h 50 min | 4 of 4 | 920,655 |
| London Gatwick LGW | British Airways, easyJet, Jet2.com, Ryanair, TUI Airways, Vueling | 2 h 30 min | 5 of 6 | 854,016 |
| London Stansted STN | Jet2.com, Ryanair | 2 h 35 min | 1 of 2 | 499,052 |
| Bristol BRS | easyJet, Jet2.com, Ryanair | 2 h 35 min | 3 of 3 | 487,844 |
| Birmingham BHX | easyJet, Jet2.com, Ryanair, TUI Airways | 2 h 40 min | 4 of 4 | 459,732 |
| Leeds Bradford LBA | Jet2.com, Ryanair | 2 h 55 min | 2 of 2 | 388,425 |
| Liverpool LPL | easyJet, Jet2.com, Ryanair | 2 h 50 min | 3 of 3 | 380,613 |
| London Luton LTN | easyJet, Jet2.com, Ryanair, Wizz Air | 2 h 35 min | 3 of 4 | 370,213 |
| East Midlands EMA | Jet2.com, Ryanair, TUI Airways | 2 h 45 min | 3 of 3 | 369,184 |
| Newcastle NCL | easyJet, Jet2.com, Ryanair, TUI Airways | 3 h 05 min | 4 of 4 | 315,623 |
| Dublin DUB | Aer Lingus, Ryanair | 2 h 55 min | 2 of 2 | 312,866* |
| Belfast International BFS | easyJet, Jet2.com, Ryanair | 3 h 05 min | 2 of 3 | 284,215 |
| Glasgow GLA | easyJet, Jet2.com, Ryanair, TUI Airways | 3 h 10 min | 4 of 4 | 257,995 |
| Edinburgh EDI | easyJet, Jet2.com, Ryanair | 3 h 10 min | 3 of 3 | 249,926 |
| Cardiff CWL | Ryanair, TUI Airways, Vueling | 2 h 35 min | 3 of 3 | 122,322 |
| Bournemouth BOH | Jet2.com, Ryanair | 2 h 25 min | 1 of 2 | 120,161 |
| Glasgow Prestwick PIK | Ryanair | 3 h 10 min | 1 of 1 | 116,430 |
| London Southend SEN | easyJet | 2 h 35 min | 1 of 1 | 66,595 |
| Newquay (Cornwall) NQY | Ryanair | 2 h 25 min | 1 of 1 | 53,684 |
| Exeter EXT | Ryanair | 2 h 30 min | 1 of 1 | 52,203 |
| Teesside MME | Ryanair | 3 h 00 min | 1 of 1 | 49,220 |
| Norwich NWI | Ryanair | 2 h 45 min | 1 of 1 | 40,431 |
| Aberdeen ABZ | Ryanair | 3 h 20 min | 0 of 1 | 36,588 |
| Southampton SOU | easyJet | 2 h 30 min | 1 of 1 | 29,556 |
| Cork ORK | Ryanair | 2 h 45 min | 0 of 1 | — |
| Shannon SNN | Ryanair | 2 h 55 min | 1 of 1 | — |
Airlines: Aena, checked 20 Oct 2026. Year-round vs seasonal: Wikipedia (revision of 20 Oct 2026). Passengers both directions: UK CAA annual airport data 2025, Table 12.1. *Dublin: Aena 2023. Cork and Shannon: Ryanair, on Aena's list; no passenger data.
Flights to Benidorm from:
Benidorm flight time
How long is the flight?
From the south coast about 2 h 25 min; from Manchester about 2 h 50 min; from Scotland about 3 h 10 min to 3 h 20 min. Add 40 minutes for passports and bags and about 45 on the coach, and put your watch forward an hour.
- Bournemouth: 2 h 25 min
- Newquay (Cornwall): 2 h 25 min
- London Gatwick: 2 h 30 min
- Exeter: 2 h 30 min
- Southampton: 2 h 30 min
- London Stansted: 2 h 35 min
- Bristol: 2 h 35 min
- London Luton: 2 h 35 min
- Cardiff: 2 h 35 min
- London Southend: 2 h 35 min
- Birmingham: 2 h 40 min
- East Midlands: 2 h 45 min
- Norwich: 2 h 45 min
- Manchester: 2 h 50 min
- Liverpool: 2 h 50 min
- Leeds Bradford: 2 h 55 min
- Dublin: 2 h 55 min
- Teesside: 3 h 00 min
- Newcastle: 3 h 05 min
- Belfast International: 3 h 05 min
- Glasgow: 3 h 10 min
- Edinburgh: 3 h 10 min
- Glasgow Prestwick: 3 h 10 min
- Aberdeen: 3 h 20 min
Our estimate: 40 minutes for taxi, climb and descent plus the great-circle distance at 780 km/h, rounded to 5 minutes (airport coordinates: OurAirports). Airline timetables differ by 10–20 minutes and by direction.
Which airport?
Is Alicante right for you?
- You want the shortest transfer: 60–69 km from every part of Benidorm
- You want the €7.99 coach straight to Benidorm
- You fly from any of the 23 UK airports on this page
- The fare there is far cheaper than Alicante for your dates
- You are hiring a car anyway: both are about 145–158 km from Benidorm
- You are touring the coast, not staying in Benidorm
Questions people ask
Your questions
What is the nearest airport to Benidorm?
Alicante–Elche (ALC): 64.5 km by road to Benidorm bus station (OSRM route planner, checked 20 Oct 2026). Valencia and Murcia are both about 145–158 km away.
Does Benidorm have an airport?
No. You fly to Alicante–Elche (ALC) and take the ALSA coach (€7.99, about 45 minutes), a taxi (€90–€100 a car) or a pre-booked transfer.
How long is the flight to Benidorm from the UK?
About 2 h 25 min to 3 h 20 min to Alicante depending on your airport (our estimate from distance), then about 45 minutes by coach. Spain is one hour ahead.
Which UK airports fly to Benidorm?
23 UK airports have direct flights to Alicante: Manchester, London Gatwick, London Stansted, Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds Bradford, Liverpool, London Luton, East Midlands, Newcastle, Belfast International, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Bournemouth, Glasgow Prestwick, London Southend, Newquay (Cornwall), Exeter, Teesside, Norwich, Aberdeen, Southampton. Dublin, Cork and Shannon fly from Ireland.
How do I find cheap flights to Benidorm?
Choose an airport with several airlines on the Alicante route (Gatwick, Manchester, Luton, Birmingham, Belfast and Newcastle have four or more), avoid school holidays, and compare all airlines on one search. Our planner opens Google Flights with your dates filled in.
Can I see which flights are landing at Alicante now?
Yes. Our live board shows UK and Irish flights in the air to Alicante, from open transponder data, refreshed about every 10 minutes.
Sources
Where the facts come from
- Live board: ADSB.lol API (ODbL 1.0); routes: VRS standing data (CC0, 2026-10-20).
- Routes and airlines: Aena, Alicante-Elche airport airlines, checked 20 Oct 2026. Seasons: Wikipedia, revision 1380370003.
- Passengers: UK CAA annual airport data 2025, Table 12.1.
- Distances: OurAirports (public domain); roads: OSRM / © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), checked 20 Oct 2026.
- Coach: ALSA; taxi: Radio Taxi Benidorm; entry rules: GOV.UK.