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Cologne or Seville?

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

Your match

Cologne
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.

Seville
54
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

CologneSeville
Beaches & swimming. Cologne and Seville are level on 0.
CologneSeville
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km402
Coast distance256 km65 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 6 points.6
CologneSeville
Score7266
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1421,370
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3522
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 4 points.4
CologneSeville
Score6056
Museums within 10 km4750
Museums within 2 km of centre2740
Share of museums within 2 km %5780
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Cologne leads by 2 points.2
CologneSeville
Score6462
Drinking venues within 4 km1,1071,089
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre727679
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6662
Nightclubs within 4 km9057
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 34 points.34
CologneSeville
Score7137
Protected land share 50 km %538
Landscape blanket share 50 km %520
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km118 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 7 points.7
CologneSeville
Score7265
Tourist attractions within 2 km4347
Park area within 2 km118 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km62
Sights concentration. Seville leads by 2 points.2
CologneSeville
Score5355
Notable places within 2 km8192
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seville leads by 11 points.11
CologneSeville
Score6071
Price level global75.960.8
Daily budget€163€122
Year-round weather. Seville leads by 15 points.15
CologneSeville
Score6075
Monthly daytime high6.3 °C to 25 °C16.3 °C to 36.2 °C
Monthly rainfall48 mm to 81 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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A
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Daytime high, °C
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Daylight, hours per day
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1
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. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCologneSeville
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 0 m
€77-159
CGN · 15 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
MunichMUC
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 30 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 20 m
€126-171
SVQ · 9 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€126-182
CGN · 15 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 35 m
no fares
CGN · 15 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 2026-08 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

MeasureCologneSeville
Official languageGermanSpanish
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
Elevation59 m18 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCologneSeville
City population1,024,621689,423
People per km²2,5304,896
Museums within 10 km4024
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre8452

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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. 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.