Weather oh so variable. You should search on line for a weather history website. That history will not inform you of what will or could happen.
Unless you choose something like a vacation rental website you will find the same agents advertising on other websites. The reliability is down to the agents advertising not the actual website.

 

Thank you very much for taking the time to reply. I'm inclined to live in both

 

When it comes to weather you basically need to go with one fact: in July it is hot everywhere in south of Spain. Both Alicante and Málaga will have temps of around 35 plus for most of the month. This sense of heat will effectively last right through until around beginning of October. It certainly is much hotter than 25 years ago and the last couple of years have seen these places reaching 40 degrees. Once the temperature gets to around 33 and above you need to adapt your daily life- that is a fact. Most people, therefore start to avoid the sun in these months this is why you will see predominantly Spanish areas with the blinds closed from 11.00am through to dark ( to keep heat and light out of your place). You will also find people are doing stuff much later at night often not going to bed until 2.00 or 3.00 as these are the cooler times, then rising early to let the cool air in before the heat increases. Of course this really only applies if you live all summer in Spain. Toursist will often lie all day beside a pool but it becomes hard to do that after a while.

 

Thank you, 1kaipa for the complete explanation with the local insight. But, at the end of the day, there's the sea breeze, so, instead of being elsewhere during the long summer, better to be at seaside. We will adapt to the local habits

 

We live in central Andalucia. Last year we had a short break in Malaga. Greet city. We took way too much but used every item of clothing. It was so humid and 36C. It was a relief to get home to 39C dry heat.

Malaga is Exploding in growth and set to overtake Sevilla in size. Numerous factors but like most tourist places, it has had a bad effect on accommodation price

Almeria comes out well as an area to live in. Your choice may be influenced by airport and flight routes.

 

Good point, olivefarmer. Joining here made me change my mind in time, because I was very set on Malaga. I had to do a research why normal people can't stand humid heat. Is humidity over sweat.
Surprisingly, I found almost the same, if not equal prices for rental, in Alicante as in Malaga. Maybe because I'm a tourist and I don't negociate.
However it is, the hint about dry vs. humid heat was a decision factor. Thank you

 

I think Malaga will be more humid than Alicante (was the last time I was in Malaga in the summer).

But we had temps well into the high 30s last year and at night it didn't drop below 27c for nearly two months.
We live 300m up and 8km inland from Altea and we saw a max of 42c in August.
In these temps we rarely go out in the hight of summer when light. We like most locals will go out around 9pm and stay out till the early hours of the morning when its coolest.
In fact it was still warmer here in late October (26c) than in previous years as well.

This year so far has been even warmer, high 20s in Feb and it might have rained yesterday up here but it was still 21c.

 

Everyone agrees on Malaga being more humid than Alicante. I must be one of the few people who thrive and love humid weather. But I travel with my mother, so having this detail so well explained by locals helped a great deal. So, thank you

 

I've never been to Alicante, but when I've visited the Eastern side of the country (Barcelona, Mallorca and Valencia) I have always found it more humid than where I live not far from Málaga. We get the occasional humid day but not all the time.

I have been here for 17 years and would say the temperatures quoted by 1kaipa are about right. Every year we get a handful of extremely hot days (40C or over) but generally it is around 35C. I don't find it too bad if they are odd days (as they usually are) but it is trying if we get 2 or 3 consecutive days like that. If you are right by the coast the temperatures will be slightly lower than a bit inland, but probably higher humidity. For excess heat the places you really want to avoid are further inland such as around Granada, Cordoba and Sevilla.

It has been quite warm here in the early part of this year, but this last week it turned much colder (14C yesterday when it was raining all day) and the mountains behind us have more snow on them than we have seen all through this last winter. Should be warming up again from today, with temperatures in the mid 20s.

 

Thank you for sharing your experience Lynn.
As a Romanian visiting Barcelona in the end of september two years ago... it was quite a tropical feeling. I did got the humidity in the air. Other than this, to me, almost all the seaside cities have this watery feeling once you land on the airport. Some more than others. Like in the Middle East, for instance, blast of humidity. I hope I didn't created a weather anxiety on this thread

 

The reports about the very higher temperatures in cities remember that if they are reported by the street thermometers that are very inaccurate. It is these that are often reported in the news.

Termómetros callejeros en verano: ¡no te fíes de ellos!

Aunque sus valores siempre llaman la atención, los termómetros callejeros no son fiables para medir de forma adecuada la temperatura del aire.

www.tiempo.com

¿Son de fiar realmente los termómetros callejeros y los móviles para medir la temperatura?

Los termómetros que se encuentran en la calle están "dopados por el calor" ya que no marcan bien la temperatura. Para medirla, no pueden ser ni de color ***** ni gris, ni, mucho menos, estar colocados frente al Sol.

www.lasexta.com

 

I don't go by street thermometer temperatures, but official measurements. This was the worst day for heat I've experienced since moving here 17 years ago, when it reached 45.7C. Thankfully it was just for the one day, because of the terral. I have also known the odd day when the temperature has been reasonable in the morning, then shot up by as much as 10C, again because of a terral, then come back down again.

Vélez-Málaga registra la temperatura más alta de España en 2020: “El calor era criminal” | España | EL PAÍS (elpais.com)

 

Can someone be so nice to tell me what does it mean, for beginners, rental with no payment assurance, please? Something like : "rent the apartment with non payment assurance. Usually assurance company needs to know the origin of your incomes comes from Spain ".
There was a fraud discovered by the admin of a rental site, so, I was suspicious, not knowing very well how does a reliable landlord-tenant interraction should happen. I cannot offer a contract from my country, so all I can show is ingresos proof and advance payment, since I rent for like 6 to 9 months.