VacationSelector

Cadiz or Cordoba?

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

Cadiz
49
match

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

Cordoba
47
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration 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 Cadiz if the sea matters: beaches within reach, swimmable water in late summer and a year that stays within 16-28°C, so the shoulder months stay usable.

Choose Cordoba if you want a dense walkable centre, more places to drink after dark and heritage that reaches beyond the city, and you can plan around July and August at 37°C.

Scoreboard

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

CadizCordoba
Beaches & swimming. Cadiz leads by 70 points.70
CadizCordoba
Score700
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km290
Coast distance0 km134 km
Water distance0 km—
Places to eat. Cordoba leads by 3 points.3
CadizCordoba
Score4447
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338616
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1813
Museums & heritage. Cordoba leads by 11 points.11
CadizCordoba
Score3647
Museums within 10 km2320
Museums within 2 km of centre1619
Share of museums within 2 km %7095
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Cordoba leads by 13 points.13
CadizCordoba
Score3043
Drinking venues within 4 km241444
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre175353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7380
Nightclubs within 4 km614
Nature & day trips. Cordoba leads by 11 points.11
CadizCordoba
Score2637
Protected land share 50 km %46
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %45100
Park area within 2 km24 hectares108 hectares
Good for families. Cordoba leads by 9 points.9
CadizCordoba
Score5463
Tourist attractions within 2 km8059
Park area within 2 km24 hectares108 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Cordoba leads by 13 points.13
CadizCordoba
Score3144
Notable places within 2 km2348
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cadiz and Cordoba are level on 71.
CadizCordoba
Score7171
Price level global60.860.8
Daily budget€122€122
Year-round weather. Cadiz leads by 11 points.11
CadizCordoba
Score8372
Monthly daytime high16.2 °C to 28 °C15.1 °C to 37.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 89 mm1 mm to 91 mm
Dry months54
0255075100

Where they differ

Cadiz has 29 beaches nearby and three months when the sea reaches 21°C or more; Cordoba has none and no coast at all. Its year is steadier too, with daytime highs of 16-28°C against Cordoba's 15-37°C.

Cordoba puts about twice as many notable places within walking distance of the centre, and about twice as many places to drink and nightclubs, most of them central. It also has about twice as many restaurants near the centre, and two UNESCO-listed places lie within day-trip reach.

Where they are alike

Both keep their eating close to the centre: Cordoba has more restaurants there, Cadiz a somewhat wider range of kitchens, and neither leaves you short of choice.

They also land close on family travel, museums and day trips. Cadiz has somewhat more attractions near the centre and somewhat more museums; Cordoba has far more park space. Neither has a theme park within reach, and protected land is modest around both, 4% near Cadiz and 6% near Cordoba.

Which traveller are you?

Swimmers and beach days: Cadiz, with 29 beaches nearby and a sea at 21°C or more from July to September. Cordoba has nothing here, and its summer heat reaches 37°C with no water to cool in.

Heritage walkers: Cordoba. Roughly twice as many notable places sit within walking distance of the centre, and two UNESCO-listed sites lie within day-trip reach. Cadiz counters with somewhat more museums in a smaller compass.

Families: Cordoba has far more park space near the centre and does better overall, though Cadiz has somewhat more attractions near the centre and gentler summer air. Neither has a theme park within reach.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value comparison between these two carries no information. Both are given the same national price level, and the €122 a day beside it is one national estimate rather than a measurement of either city. Neither is the cheaper trip on this evidence.

Cadiz's beaches count all year, but the sea only reaches 21°C or more for three months, and those are the months when everyone else comes. The same squeeze applies to rain: the driest weeks in both cities are the hottest, and the quieter autumn ones bring 76-89mm in Cadiz and more in Cordoba.

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
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J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Cadiz
16
17
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
20
17
Cordoba
15
17
21
24
28
33
37
37
32
26
19
16
Sea temperature, °C
Cadiz
16
15
16
17
18
21
23
23
22
20
18
17
Cordoba
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cadiz
62
52
54
43
32
6
0
2
29
76
89
73
Cordoba
57
53
63
54
43
11
1
7
37
79
79
91
Daylight, hours per day
Cadiz
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Cordoba
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cadiz
6
7
8
9
11
12
12
11
9
8
6
5
Cordoba
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cadiz: 1991-2020 normals, Cadiz Bay / Puntales (5.2 km from centre). Cordoba: 1991-2020 normals, Cordoba / Aeropuerto (7.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Cadiz peaks from June to September, with highs of 26-28°C, sea at 21-23°C and almost no rain in midsummer. October turns wet at 76mm and stays that way into winter.

Cordoba is at its best in spring and early autumn: April and May bring 24-28°C with only modest rain, and October is warm before the rain returns. July and August sit at 37°C with no coast to escape to, and late autumn runs wet, up to 91mm.

Getting there

Flying fromCadizCordoba
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
BilbaoBIO
1 h 30 m
€112-119
SVQ · 105 km
1 h 30 m
€112-119
SVQ · 111 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€83-157
TNG · 95 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
ValenciaVLC
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 105 km
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 111 km
Santiago De CompostelaSCQ
1 h 25 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 105 km
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 111 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureCadizCordoba
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
Elevation11 m120 m
Main airportJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsCórdoba Airport (ODB)8 km from centre3 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCadizCordoba
City population109,950323,262
People per km²9,087258
Museums within 10 km1116
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre2827
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.