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The Explanada de España, Alicante
AlicanteThe Explanada de España
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Alicante by Emilio Sánchez Hernández, Pexels License; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Alicante or Nashville?

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
  • getting around
  • prices

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

Choose Nashville for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’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, Nashville 14: Alicante leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Alicante 67, Nashville 62: Alicante leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Alicante 46, Nashville 50: Nashville leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Alicante 60, Nashville 70: Nashville leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alicante 63, Nashville 46: Alicante leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Alicante 72, Nashville 52: Alicante leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Alicante 68, Nashville 55: Alicante leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Alicante 66, Nashville 30: Alicante leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Alicante 44, Nashville 42: Alicante leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Alicante 60, Nashville 30: Alicante leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alicante 37, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alicante 40, Nashville 20: Alicante leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alicante and Nashville.

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 getting around with your weighting.

Nashville
46match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife 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

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlicanteNashville
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation3 m182 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteNashville
City population366,221689,447
People per km²1,819506
Museums within 10 km812
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. 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.