Which airport, and what the journey costs
Airports for Santa Pola
Santa Pola sits 14 km down the coast from Alicante-Elche, which makes the question of which airport to use unusually easy to answer. Nothing else is close: the next nearest is around 105 km away and the one after that around 195 km. What is worth thinking about instead is how you cover those fourteen kilometres, because on a journey this short the fixed charges matter more than the distance.
The airport
Getting to Santa Pola
Alicante Airport (ALC)14 km by roadSanta Pola- Driving
- 15–20 min
- Private transfer, per vehicle
- €80
Compare your options
Every figure here is the same one the route guide shows, read from the same record. Prices say what kind of price they are, and a coach fare charged per person is not comparable with a vehicle price without doing the arithmetic for your own group.
| Option | Fare | Journey time | Door to door |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private transfer | €80–€100.53 Recently checked price · per vehicle · checked Sep 13, 2026 · assumes 8 passengers | — | Yes |
| Taxi | €25–€30 Calculated fare · per vehicle | — | Yes |
| Bus | Price unavailable Not checked yet | — | No |
Book a transfer to Santa Pola
One bookable transfer for this route
Private Transfer from Alicante–Elche (ALC) Airport to Santa Pola
- Door to door
- Up to 8 in one vehicle
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Other airports that can reach Santa Pola
These are further away and TransferSelect does not cover transfers from them. They are listed so the choice above can be judged against something rather than taken on trust.
- Region de Murcia International Airport (RMU)About 105 km by road
Seven times the distance from Alicante, which is 14 km away. Worth pricing only if a flight into it is very much cheaper.
- Valencia Airport (VLC)About 195 km by road
Around two hours of driving against twenty minutes from Alicante. Not a practical arrival airport for Santa Pola. TransferSelect does not cover transfers from it.
Why nothing else comes close
Alicante-Elche is twenty minutes from Santa Pola on the N-338 and the N-332. Region de Murcia is the next option and it is roughly seven times further; Valencia is about two hours of driving. Both are on the wrong side of a journey that would otherwise be over before it started, and a cheaper fare into either would have to be very much cheaper to survive the transfer that follows. We do not cover transfers from either airport.
The measurement, and how sure we are of it
Two independent routing engines were run from the airport's landside departures roadway to three aiming points in Santa Pola: the town centre, the port and the Platja de Llevant. All six results fall within 720 metres of each other, and at the town centre the two engines agree to within 50 metres. That is the closest agreement on any route this site carries, which is why the distance here is recorded with high confidence rather than the medium most routes get. The figure for Region de Murcia is the opposite case: the engines disagree by 13.4 km, so it is recorded as a low-confidence approximation and rounded to the nearest five.
What a short transfer costs, and why
The regulated taxi fare works out at roughly 25 to 30 EUR for the vehicle. Nearly six euros of that is the airport supplement and the pick-up charge, neither of which shrinks with the distance, so on this route they are close to a quarter of the total. Two practical consequences follow. Splitting a vehicle is decisive here, because the fare barely moves whether there is one of you or four. And the night and Sunday tariff, which is punishing on a long route, adds only about five euros on this one, since most of the increase is charged per kilometre and there are only fourteen of them.
Frequently asked questions
Which airport should I fly into for Santa Pola?
Alicante-Elche, at 14 km. It is the only airport near enough to be practical: the next is around 105 km away and the one after that around 195 km. Unless a fare into one of those is dramatically lower, the transfer will take back the difference.
How far is Alicante Airport from Santa Pola?
About 14 km, or fifteen to twenty minutes of free-flowing road. Six measurements from two independent routing engines, to three points in the town, all fall within 720 metres of each other.
Is Murcia airport an option for Santa Pola?
Only in the sense that it exists. It is around 105 km away, and our two routing engines disagree by 13.4 km on that figure, which is the widest spread on this site. Even the shorter reading is seven times the drive from Alicante.
What is the cheapest way from the airport to Santa Pola?
A Vectalia coach calls at the airport on a line named for Santa Pola at one end, so it goes there without a change. We have not been able to verify its fare or its timetable from the operator and will not print figures we cannot stand behind. For two or more people the regulated taxi, at 25 to 30 EUR for the whole vehicle, is likely to be cheaper than seats bought individually in any case.
Related pages
Where these facts come from
Every figure on this page is checked against a named source and dated. We do not publish a number we cannot point at.
- Facts last checked
OSRM routing engine on OpenStreetMap data, opens in a new tabCalculated by us
Road distance · checked Sep 10, 2026
Valhalla routing engine on OpenStreetMap data, opens in a new tabCalculated by us
Journey time by road · checked Sep 10, 2026
ENAIRE AIP Espana, AD 2-LEMI aerodrome data, opens in a new tabGovernment source
Region de Murcia International Airport name · checked Sep 10, 2026
TransferSelect road-distance measurements, other airports to Santa PolaCalculated by us
Region de Murcia International Airport road distance, Valencia Airport road distance · checked Sep 10, 2026
ENAIRE AIP Espana, AD 2-LEVC aerodrome data, opens in a new tabGovernment source
Valencia Airport name · checked Sep 10, 2026