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Cloud Gate in Millennium Park, Chicago
ChicagoCloud Gate in Millennium Park
Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España

Photos: Chicago by Jesus Toledo, Pexels License; Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Chicago 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 Chicago for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Seville for

  • day trips
  • prices
  • wellness

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. Chicago 50, Seville 18: Chicago leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Chicago 80, Seville 73: Chicago leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Chicago 78, Seville 82: Seville leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Chicago 77, Seville 62: Chicago leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chicago 48, Seville 52: Seville leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Chicago 42, Seville 80: Seville leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Chicago 78, Seville 55: Chicago leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Chicago and Seville are level on 72.
Shopping & style. Chicago 70, Seville 55: Chicago leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Chicago 33, Seville 58: Seville leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chicago 82, Seville 68: Chicago leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chicago 33, Seville 40: Seville leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chicago and Seville.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Chicago
62match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Seville
60match

Wins on day trips and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Chicago in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
102 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 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. Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChicagoSeville
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation179 m18 m
Main airportChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre274 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureChicagoSeville
City population2,746,388689,423
People per km²4,5294,896
Museums within 10 km4424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month-

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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). 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.

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.