VacationSelector

Alicante or Seville?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Alicante
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Seville
54
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Alicante if the sea is the point of the trip: 33 beaches within reach, water warm enough to swim in well past summer, and a drier pattern month to month.

Choose Seville if you would rather walk between museums, monuments and restaurants, with far more packed around the centre and more to occupy children, and you can work around a summer that reaches 36°C.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AlicanteSeville
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 77 points.77
AlicanteSeville
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km332
Coast distance1 km65 km
Water distance1 km—
Places to eat. Alicante and Seville are level on 66.
AlicanteSeville
Score6666
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8671,370
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3122
Museums & heritage. Seville leads by 14 points.14
AlicanteSeville
Score4256
Museums within 10 km1450
Museums within 2 km of centre1140
Share of museums within 2 km %7980
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Seville leads by 11 points.11
AlicanteSeville
Score5162
Drinking venues within 4 km5911,089
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488679
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8362
Nightclubs within 4 km5457
Nature & day trips. Alicante leads by 3 points.3
AlicanteSeville
Score4037
Protected land share 50 km %78
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %59100
Park area within 2 km60 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Seville leads by 23 points.23
AlicanteSeville
Score4265
Tourist attractions within 2 km1347
Park area within 2 km60 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Seville leads by 29 points.29
AlicanteSeville
Score2655
Notable places within 2 km1892
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Alicante and Seville are level on 71.
AlicanteSeville
Score7171
Price level global60.860.8
Daily budget€122€122
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 12 points.12
AlicanteSeville
Score8775
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C16.3 °C to 36.2 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm1 mm to 78 mm
Dry months115
0255075100

Where they differ

Alicante is the swimming city: 33 beaches nearby against Seville's 2, and sea at 21°C or more for five months of the year, which Seville has in no month at all. Most months there bring 40mm of rain or less.

Seville packs far more notable places within walking distance of the centre, about three times as many museums and roughly twice as many restaurants near the middle. For families there are more attractions and park space close in, and 2 theme parks within reach against Alicante's 1.

Where they are alike

Eating out is where the two are hardest to separate. Seville has about twice as many restaurants near the centre, Alicante a somewhat wider range of kitchens: density set against variety.

Days out of town are limited in similar measure, with 8% of the land around Seville protected against 7% around Alicante. Nightlife runs close too: Seville has more places to drink, but the two have a similar number of nightclubs, and in both they sit near the centre.

Which traveller are you?

If you are travelling to swim, Alicante is the only real option of the two: 33 beaches nearby and sea at 21°C or more for five months, against a city with almost no coast.

If you want museums and monuments on foot, take Seville. It has around three times as many museums and far more notable places within walking distance of the centre, so days need little planning.

Families lean towards Seville, with more attractions and park space near the centre and 2 theme parks within reach against Alicante's 1, unless beach days are the whole reason for going.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value comparison between these two carries no information. It rests on a national price level, identical for both by construction, and the €122 a day beside it is one national estimate rather than a measurement of either city. Neither can be called the cheaper trip on this evidence.

A warm year is not a comfortable one throughout. Seville reaches 36°C in July and August, and its wettest stretch runs from October to December. Alicante's coast is seasonal too, with sea at 14-16°C from December to April, when its 33 beaches are for walking rather than swimming.

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
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J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Alicante
17
18
20
22
24
28
30
31
29
25
21
18
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Seville
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Seville
6
7
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
8
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Alicante is at its best in May and June, with highs of 24-28°C, only 8mm of rain in June and the sea past 22°C. Late summer stays swimmable, reaching 26°C in August, though September brings 52mm. October still holds 25°C.

Seville works best in April and May, at 24-28°C, before the heat arrives: July and August reach 36°C. Its autumn and early winter are the wet half of the year, at 72-78mm from October through December.

Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteSeville
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€46-56
ALC · 10 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 10 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€85-109
ALC · 10 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€102-119
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€72-86
ALC · 10 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
2 h 50 m
€180-230
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
2 h 50 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
2 h 20 m
€126-171
SVQ · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 50 m
no fares
ALC · 10 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAlicanteSeville
Official languageSpanishSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m18 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteSeville
City population366,221689,423
People per km²1,8194,896
Museums within 10 km824
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre5252
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months–

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.