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The Three Graces at Pier Head, Liverpool
LiverpoolThe Three Graces at Pier Head
The white beach below the high-rise hotels, Orange Beach
Orange BeachThe white beach below the high-rise hotels

Photos: Liverpool by Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Orange Beach by WeaponizingArchitecture, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Liverpool or Orange Beach?

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 Liverpool for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • nightlife

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

Choose Orange Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Orange Beach’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. Liverpool 22, Orange Beach 86: Orange Beach leads by 64 points.
Food & drink. Liverpool 48, Orange Beach 40: Liverpool leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Liverpool 64, Orange Beach 7: Liverpool leads by 57 points.
Nightlife. Liverpool 66, Orange Beach 30: Liverpool leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Liverpool 52, Orange Beach 60: Orange Beach leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Liverpool 64, Orange Beach 50: Liverpool leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Liverpool 55, Orange Beach 75: Orange Beach leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Liverpool 68, Orange Beach 15: Liverpool leads by 53 points.
Shopping & style. Liverpool 52, Orange Beach 25: Liverpool leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Liverpool 50, Orange Beach 38: Liverpool leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Liverpool 66, Orange Beach 32: Liverpool leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Liverpool 22, Orange Beach 32: Orange Beach leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Liverpool and Orange Beach.

Your match

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

Liverpool
Best match
52match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Orange Beach
41match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Orange Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 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. Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre). Orange Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Gulf Shores / Bay Village Mobile Home Park (10.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLiverpoolOrange Beach
Official languageEnglish-
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999911
Elevation70 m4 m
Main airportLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsPensacola International Airport (PNS)41 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLiverpoolOrange Beach
City population513,4418,095
People per km²4,592196
Museums within 10 km310
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.