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The Explanada de España, Alicante
AlicanteThe Explanada de España
Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine

Photos: Alicante by Emilio Sánchez Hernández, Pexels License; Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Alicante or Deer Valley?

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
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Deer Valley for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Deer Valley’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, Deer Valley 10: Alicante leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Alicante 67, Deer Valley 38: Alicante leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Alicante 46, Deer Valley 15: Alicante leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Alicante 60, Deer Valley 25: Alicante leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alicante 63, Deer Valley 90: Deer Valley leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Alicante 72, Deer Valley 38: Alicante leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Alicante 68, Deer Valley 60: Alicante leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Alicante 66, Deer Valley 50: Alicante leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Alicante 44, Deer Valley 25: Alicante leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Alicante 60, Deer Valley 4: Alicante leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alicante 37, Deer Valley 30: Alicante leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alicante 40, Deer Valley 52: Deer Valley leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alicante and Deer Valley.

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 prices with your weighting.

Deer Valley
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness 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

Deer Valley in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Deer Valley's temperatures are measured 82 km from the centre, at Evanston.

Deer Valley's station stands 297 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Deer Valley has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Deer Valley: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (81.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlicanteDeer Valley
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m2,474 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteDeer Valley
City population366,221-
People per km²1,819-
Museums within 10 km80
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months-

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.