VacationSelector

Chicago 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, 2 points apart

Chicago
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Seville
54
match

Wins on value for money 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.

ChicagoSeville
Beaches & swimming. Chicago leads by 53 points.53
ChicagoSeville
Score530
Swim season months10
Beaches 10 km122
Coast distance10,000 km65 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Chicago leads by 15 points.15
ChicagoSeville
Score8166
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,1471,370
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3722
Museums & heritage. Seville leads by 10 points.10
ChicagoSeville
Score4656
Museums within 10 km4550
Museums within 2 km of centre2040
Share of museums within 2 km %4480
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Chicago and Seville are level on 62.
ChicagoSeville
Score6262
Drinking venues within 4 km1,1231,089
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre728679
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6562
Nightclubs within 4 km5157
Nature & day trips. Chicago leads by 1 points.1
ChicagoSeville
Score3837
Protected land share 50 km %68
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km118 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Seville leads by 10 points.10
ChicagoSeville
Score5565
Tourist attractions within 2 km1847
Park area within 2 km118 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Chicago leads by 15 points.15
ChicagoSeville
Score7055
Notable places within 2 km21792
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seville leads by 28 points.28
ChicagoSeville
Score4371
Price level global10060.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Seville leads by 18 points.18
ChicagoSeville
Score5775
Monthly daytime high0.2 °C to 29.4 °C16.3 °C to 36.2 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 121 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
Chicago
0
3
9
15
22
27
29
28
25
17
10
3
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Chicago
3
2
2
4
7
14
21
23
20
15
9
6
Seville
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Chicago
58
54
68
105
121
115
102
104
85
98
69
59
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Daylight, hours per day
Chicago
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Chicago
No sunshine record
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. Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromChicagoSeville
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 0 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
8 h 30 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 10 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MadridMAD
8 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
9 h 45 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
8 h 30 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
9 h 10 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
8 h 25 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 50 m
€180-230
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
LisbonLIS
8 h 15 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 9 km
ViennaVIE
9 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
3 h 15 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

MeasureChicagoSeville
Official languageSpanish
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 centre272 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 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 km4324
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8752
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month

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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.