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The Explanada de España, Alicante
AlicanteThe Explanada de España
Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast

Photos: Alicante by Emilio Sánchez Hernández, Pexels License; Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Alicante or Belfast?

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

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • wellness

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

Choose Belfast for

  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Belfast’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, Belfast 20: Alicante leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Alicante 67, Belfast 50: Alicante leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Alicante 46, Belfast 55: Belfast leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Alicante 60, Belfast 50: Alicante leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alicante 63, Belfast 74: Belfast leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Alicante 72, Belfast 66: Alicante leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Alicante 68, Belfast 58: Alicante leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Alicante 66, Belfast 62: Alicante leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Alicante 44, Belfast 45: Belfast leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Alicante 60, Belfast 48: Alicante leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alicante 37, Belfast 55: Belfast leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alicante 40, Belfast 25: Alicante leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alicante and Belfast.

Your match

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

Alicante
Best match
59match

Wins on beaches and food and drink with your weighting.

Belfast
51match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

Belfast in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlicanteBelfast
Official languageSpanishEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation3 m3 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteBelfast
City population366,221345,006
People per km²1,8193,000
Museums within 10 km88
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.