Which is cheaper, Alicante or Montpellier?

Alicante is cheaper: about $2,200 per month versus $2,450 for one person.

Is Alicante or Montpellier safer?

Alicante scores higher on safety (77 vs 69), based on national homicide rates and World Bank political-stability scores.

Where is the internet faster, Alicante or Montpellier?

Alicante: a measured median of 75.1 Mbps versus 62.3 Mbps (M-Lab, 2024).

Alicante vs Montpellier

for digital nomads

Under balanced weights Alicante edges it, 71 to 68, winning 7 of the 9 factors. Alicante is stronger on nothing outright; Montpellier on nothing outright. Change the weights in the ranker to see which one wins for you.

Alicante

out of 100

Costa Blanca base with a real city behind the beach

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Montpellier

out of 100

Young, sunny and car-free at the core

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Factor scores (0–100, balanced weights)

Metric	Alicante	Montpellier
Cost of living	33 ✓	28
Safety	77 ✓	69
Healthcare	87 ✓	85
Internet	83 ✓	78
Visa ease	90 ✓	90
Getting there & around	43 ✓	41
Climate	50	50
Air quality	94 ✓	88
Quality of life	80	80 ✓

Cost

Metric	Alicante	Montpellier
Monthly cost, one personcountry-level estimate for at least one city	$2,200 ✓	$2,450
Central one-bedroom rent	no data	no data

Safety and health (country-level)

Metric	Alicante	Montpellier
Homicides per 100k	0.5 ✓	1
Political stability (0–100)	65.8 ✓	61.8
UHC service coverage (0–100)	84 ✓	82
Life expectancy	82.7 yrs ✓	81.9 yrs

Internet (M-Lab measured medians)

Metric	Alicante	Montpellier
Download	75.1 Mbps ✓	62.3 Mbps
Upload	63 Mbps ✓	43.5 Mbps

Visa

Metric	Alicante	Montpellier
Nomad visa	International Telework Visa (Digital Nomad, Ley 14/2013 amended Dec 2022) ✓	none listed
Minimum income for the visa	$2,714/mo	no data
Visa-free days, US passport	90 days	90 days
Visa-free days, EU passport	unlimited	unlimited
Visa-free days, UK passport	90 days	90 days

Getting there and around

Metric	Alicante	Montpellier
Non-stop airport destinations	126 ✓	40
Walkability (1–5, editorial)	4	5 ✓
Transit (1–5, editorial)	3	4 ✓

Climate and air

Metric	Alicante	Montpellier
Comfortable months per year	6	6
Annual mean PM2.5	7.7 µg/m³ ✓	10.4 µg/m³

✓ marks the better value in each row; ties and missing data are left unmarked.

Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, Alicante or Montpellier?: Alicante is cheaper: about $2,200 per month versus $2,450 for one person.
Is Alicante or Montpellier safer?: Alicante scores higher on safety (77 vs 69), based on national homicide rates and World Bank political-stability scores.
Where is the internet faster, Alicante or Montpellier?: Alicante: a measured median of 75.1 Mbps versus 62.3 Mbps (M-Lab, 2024).

More comparisons

Sources: Cost of Living Global 2026 (city rows); 2026 Cost of Living Index (country level); Digital Nomad Visas 2026; Worldwide Governance Indicators — Political Stability and Absence of Violence (score 0–100); Estimates of rates of homicides per 100 000 population; UHC service coverage index; Life expectancy at birth (years), both sexes; M-Lab NDT statistics (city aggregates, 2024); Airport destinations (Wikipedia airline and destination tables); NASA POWER climatology (2001–2020 monthly means); WHO Ambient Air Quality Database, June 2026 update (V8); Human Development Index (HDR 2025, HDI 2023); EF English Proficiency Index 2024 (band); Walkability and transit ratings (editorial); Passport Index dataset (visa requirements, 199 passports × 199 destinations). Dataset 2026.09.4. See each city page for per-metric footnotes and the methodology.