Alicante in February
Around 12.5 °C by day, sea 14.6 °C. Too cold to swim. Quieter than the peak: 2 out of 5 against 4.
February in Alicante is 12.5 °C by day and 14.6 °C in the sea — the coldest water of the year. Load is 2 out of 5, the low point shared with January.
February is useful because it shows the city without visitors. Alicante is not a resort with a winter season but an ordinary Spanish city, and February makes that plain: markets, schools and doctors all running, and the same people on the promenade as in October. What to check in winter is the building. Humidity here is 65% against 71% in Málaga and 68% in Barcelona, and there are 34 rainy days a year against 46 and 56: damp is a smaller problem. But heating is still not assumed in a Spanish flat, and February is the month you find that out.
Towns nearby in February
| Town | Air | Sea | Busy | Winter | €/m² |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante | 12.5 | 14.6 | 2/5 | 5/5 | 2 272appraised |
| Torrevieja | 12.5 | 14.7 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 2 241appraised |
| Santa Pola | 12.5 | 14.6 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 2 604appraised |
| El Campello | 12.5 | 14.6 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 2 824appraised |
| Dénia | 12.5 | 14.3 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 2 989appraised |
| Benidorm | 12.5 | 14.6 | 3/5 | 4/5 | 3 213appraised |
| Calpe / Calp | 12.5 | 14.4 | 1/5 | 4/5 | 3 258appraised |
| Orihuela Costa | 12.5 | 14.7 | 1/5 | 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.