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The Explanada de España, Alicante
AlicanteThe Explanada de España
The Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls, Antibes
AntibesThe Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls

Photos: Alicante by Emilio Sánchez Hernández, Pexels License; Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Alicante or Antibes?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Alicante for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Alicante’s own page.

Choose Antibes for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Antibes’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Alicante 82, Antibes 80: Alicante leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Alicante 67, Antibes 50: Alicante leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Alicante 46, Antibes 42: Alicante leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Alicante 60, Antibes 40: Alicante leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alicante 63, Antibes 70: Antibes leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Alicante 72, Antibes 88: Antibes leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Alicante 68, Antibes 55: Alicante leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Alicante 66, Antibes 62: Alicante leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Alicante 44, Antibes 35: Alicante leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Alicante 60, Antibes 30: Alicante leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alicante 37, Antibes 35: Alicante leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alicante and Antibes are level on 40.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alicante and Antibes.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Alicante
Best match
59match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Antibes
52match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Alicante in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Antibes in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AlicanteAntibes

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlicanteAntibes
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m0 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteAntibes
City population366,22177,637
People per km²1,8192,930
Museums within 10 km814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.