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Wat Pho, Bangkok
BangkokWat Pho
Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bangkok or Seville?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bangkok for

  • wellness
  • prices
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Bangkok’s own page.

Choose Seville for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Seville’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bangkok 12, Seville 18: Seville leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Seville 73: Bangkok leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Seville 82: Seville leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Seville 62: Bangkok leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Seville 52: Seville leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Seville 80: Seville leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Seville 55: Seville leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Seville 72: Seville leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Seville 55: Bangkok leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Seville 58: Bangkok leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Seville 68: Seville leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Seville 40: Bangkok leads by 35 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Seville.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

Seville
60match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Seville in July

36 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokSeville
Official languageThaiSpanish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m18 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokSeville
City population5,676,648689,423
People per km²3,6194,896
Museums within 10 km5924
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.