VacationSelector

Cardiff or Seville?

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

Your match

Cardiff
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Seville
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on good for families and year-round weather 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.

CardiffSeville
Beaches & swimming. Cardiff leads by 46 points.46
CardiffSeville
Score460
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km82
Coast distance2 km65 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Seville leads by 6 points.6
CardiffSeville
Score6066
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5411,370
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3222
Museums & heritage. Seville leads by 17 points.17
CardiffSeville
Score3956
Museums within 10 km6150
Museums within 2 km of centre640
Share of museums within 2 km %1080
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Seville leads by 14 points.14
CardiffSeville
Score4862
Drinking venues within 4 km5361,089
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre395679
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7462
Nightclubs within 4 km3557
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 13 points.13
CardiffSeville
Score5037
Protected land share 50 km %188
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %68100
Park area within 2 km88 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Seville leads by 33 points.33
CardiffSeville
Score3265
Tourist attractions within 2 km447
Park area within 2 km88 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Seville leads by 10 points.10
CardiffSeville
Score4555
Notable places within 2 km5192
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seville leads by 17 points.17
CardiffSeville
Score5471
Price level global84.960.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Seville leads by 21 points.21
CardiffSeville
Score5475
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C16.3 °C to 36.2 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm1 mm to 78 mm
Dry months05
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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Seville
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffSeville
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
Las PalmasLPA
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 0 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
2 h 20 m
€126-171
SVQ · 9 km
IbizaIBZ
2 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
1 h 25 m
€87-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
ArrecifeACE
3 h 45 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
Puerto del RosarioFUE
3 h 50 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 20 m
no fares
BRS · 34 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 2026-09 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

MeasureCardiffSeville
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation41 m18 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffSeville
City population383,536689,423
People per km²2,7344,896
Museums within 10 km924
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5552
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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.