Alicante Travel Forum

We hope to spend a week in Alicante during Christmas and new year. What is the weather like in Dec? Is the city free of tourists during this time? Anything else that is interesting we should know
Thanks
Samanthi

The winter in Alicante is quite smooth. Average temperatures are about 7ºC (low) and 17ºC (high). Rains are not frequent.
Though most of the tourist come in the summer, looking for sun, there are visitors all over the year.
If you just want to visit the city, have a look at this web: http://www.alicante.es/ingles/
If you are also interested on the province, there are very nice places (beaches, mountains, villages) not far from the city. In the link bellow, cliking on "conocer la provincia", you will find the information also in english.
http://www.ladipu.com/

Thanks Carmen. I will check those sites.

I've been to Alicante February this year and liked it a lot. Will probably go there again next year. Weather was very nice, we had two days where it got over 25 degrees in the afternoon.

Alicante is fun in December because it's all decked out for the holidays. The storefronts are prettied up, they sell roasted chestnuts on the corners, and they close streets to auto traffic so you can walk and get hot chocolate and churros, which are a traditional treat, like a long sugared rope of fried dough. Not too many tourists this time of year. There are bakeries on almost every corner, so you can start your day out with some tasty warm food too.

On new year's eve, people gather in front of the ayuntamiento and drink cava (Spanish champagne) and grapes are passed out to eat as the bells chime at 12.

Also, the city is filled with nativity displays - each neighborhood has its own, and it's fun to go from one to another and mix with the hundreds of others out walking.

If you enjoy those kinds of things, you'd like it here in December.

Hi, I was in Alicante last Decmber, we got 1week of rain and 1 week of nice weather. Its not very warm although a jacket is not needed during the day, it does get cold at night though. As far as tourists go, its pretty quiet with everything including tourists.

Thanks to you all .