Alicante in December
Around 13 °C by day, sea 16.8 °C. Too cold to swim. Quieter than the peak: 3 out of 5 against 4.
December in Alicante is 13 °C by day and 16.8 °C in the sea. Too cold to swim, an ordinary month to live in: load 3 out of 5, everything open, people on the street.
On the Costa Blanca only Alicante holds a winter score of 5 out of 5. Benidorm, which lives through the winter because people come to winter there, scores 4. Alicante lives because it is a city: 365,586 residents, a university, a port, a hospital 6 minutes away, 5 international schools, an airport 20 minutes away with 120 direct routes. The winter score measures how much work in cafés, hotels and shops is left in January against the year's peak, and a city keeps more of it than a resort.
Towns nearby in December
| Town | Air | Sea | Busy | Winter | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante | 13 | 16.8 | 3/5 | 5/5 | 2 272appraised |
| Torrevieja | 13 | 16.8 | 2/5 | 4/5 | 2 241appraised |
| Santa Pola | 13 | 16.8 | 2/5 | 4/5 | 2 604appraised |
| El Campello | 13 | 16.8 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 2 824appraised |
| Dénia | 13 | 16.6 | 2/5 | 4/5 | 2 989appraised |
| Benidorm | 13 | 16.8 | 3/5 | 4/5 | 3 213appraised |
| Calpe / Calp | 13 | 16.7 | 2/5 | 4/5 | 3 258appraised |
| Orihuela Costa | 13 | 16.8 | 2/5 | 3/5 | 3 348asking |
The winter column is a 1-to-5 score: how many cafés, hotels and shops run in January compared with the best month of the year. Where a village has no government figure of its own, it is our estimate. Tourists never notice; anyone who moved does.
Rain days and humidity are annual here, not monthly: 34 rainy days a year, 65% humidity in winter. We have no monthly normals yet and will not invent a split.