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The Explanada de España, Alicante
AlicanteThe Explanada de España
The Three Graces at Pier Head, Liverpool
LiverpoolThe Three Graces at Pier Head

Photos: Alicante by Emilio Sánchez Hernández, Pexels License; Liverpool by Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Alicante or Liverpool?

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 Liverpool for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Liverpool’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, Liverpool 22: Alicante leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Alicante 67, Liverpool 48: Alicante leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Alicante 46, Liverpool 64: Liverpool leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Alicante 60, Liverpool 66: Liverpool leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alicante 63, Liverpool 52: Alicante leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Alicante 72, Liverpool 64: Alicante leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Alicante 68, Liverpool 55: Alicante leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Alicante 66, Liverpool 68: Liverpool leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Alicante 44, Liverpool 52: Liverpool leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Alicante 60, Liverpool 50: Alicante leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alicante 37, Liverpool 66: Liverpool leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alicante 40, Liverpool 22: Alicante leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alicante and Liverpool.

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.

Liverpool
52match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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

Liverpool in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Liverpool's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Manchester Airport.

Liverpool 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). Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlicanteLiverpool
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 m70 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre75 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteLiverpool
City population366,221513,441
People per km²1,8194,592
Museums within 10 km831
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.