VacationSelector

Beijing 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, 1 point apart

Beijing
53
match

Wins on good for families and value for money with your weighting.

Seville
54
match

Wins on year-round weather and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

BeijingSeville
Beaches & swimming. Beijing and Seville are level on 0.
BeijingSeville
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance145 km65 km
Water distance——
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing leads by 7 points.7
BeijingSeville
Score6356
Museums within 10 km9550
Museums within 2 km of centre1540
Share of museums within 2 km %1680
Unesco sites within 50 km61
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Seville leads by 2 points.2
BeijingSeville
Score3537
Protected land share 50 km %38
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km143 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 12 points.12
BeijingSeville
Score7765
Tourist attractions within 2 km4147
Park area within 2 km143 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km122
Sights concentration. Seville leads by 5 points.5
BeijingSeville
Score5055
Notable places within 2 km6992
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Beijing leads by 8 points.8
BeijingSeville
Score7971
Price level global4960.8
Daily budget—€122
Year-round weather. Seville leads by 9 points.9
BeijingSeville
Score6675
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C16.3 °C to 36.2 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm1 mm to 78 mm
Dry months85
0255075100

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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Daytime high, °C
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBeijingSeville
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 0 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MadridMAD
11 h 30 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
10 h 0 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
10 h 10 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 55 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 50 m
€180-230
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
LisbonLIS
12 h 5 m
no fares
PKX · 45 km
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 0 m
€475-645
PEK · 25 km
4 h 10 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

MeasureBeijingSeville
Official languagePutonghuaSpanish
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation43 m18 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingSeville
City population21,893,095689,423
People per km²1,3344,896
Museums within 10 km8324
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre2952

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.

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.