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The coastline of the Hotel Zone, Cancun
CancunThe coastline of the Hotel Zone
Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España

Photos: Cancun by Tellez Erik, Pexels License; Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Cancun 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 Cancun for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Seville for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

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. Cancun 98, Seville 18: Cancun leads by 80 points.
Food & drink. Cancun 44, Seville 73: Seville leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Cancun 15, Seville 82: Seville leads by 67 points.
Nightlife. Cancun 70, Seville 62: Cancun leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cancun 66, Seville 52: Cancun leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Cancun 65, Seville 80: Seville leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Cancun 78, Seville 55: Cancun leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Cancun 25, Seville 72: Seville leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Cancun 40, Seville 55: Seville leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Cancun 46, Seville 58: Seville leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cancun 17, Seville 68: Seville leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cancun 55, Seville 40: Cancun leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cancun and Seville.

Your match

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

Cancun
52match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Seville
Best match
60match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Cancun in July

30 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
89 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °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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Where the figures come from

Cancun has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Cancun: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCancunSeville
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaSpanish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation5 m18 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre137 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCancunSeville
City population888,797689,423
People per km²-4,896
Museums within 10 km124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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). 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.

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.