VacationSelector

Cordoba or Seville?

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

Your match

Cordoba
47
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Seville
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Seville if you want the evenings to carry the trip: about twice as many restaurants near the centre, a wider range of kitchens, and far more nightclubs, with most sights within walking distance of one another.

Choose Cordoba if you prefer a smaller city, with more park space and more attractions close to the centre, and 2 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Seville's 1.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

CordobaSeville
Beaches & swimming. Cordoba and Seville are level on 0.
CordobaSeville
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance134 km65 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Seville leads by 19 points.19
CordobaSeville
Score4766
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6161,370
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1322
Museums & heritage. Seville leads by 9 points.9
CordobaSeville
Score4756
Museums within 10 km2050
Museums within 2 km of centre1940
Share of museums within 2 km %9580
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Seville leads by 19 points.19
CordobaSeville
Score4362
Drinking venues within 4 km4441,089
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre353679
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8062
Nightclubs within 4 km1457
Nature & day trips. Cordoba and Seville are level on 37.
CordobaSeville
Score3737
Protected land share 50 km %68
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km108 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Seville leads by 2 points.2
CordobaSeville
Score6365
Tourist attractions within 2 km5947
Park area within 2 km108 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Seville leads by 11 points.11
CordobaSeville
Score4455
Notable places within 2 km4892
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cordoba and Seville are level on 71.
CordobaSeville
Score7171
Price level global60.860.8
Daily budget€122€122
Year-round weather. Seville leads by 3 points.3
CordobaSeville
Score7275
Monthly daytime high15.1 °C to 37.1 °C16.3 °C to 36.2 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 91 mm1 mm to 78 mm
Dry months45
0255075100

Where they differ

Cordoba is the quieter of the two. It has somewhat more park space and somewhat more tourist attractions near the centre, and 2 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Seville's 1. It also runs warmer, 15-37°C across the year against 16-36°C.

Seville has about twice as many restaurants near the centre and a wider range of kitchens, twice as many places to drink and many times as many nightclubs. It also has about three times as many museums and twice as many notable places within walking distance.

Where they are alike

Both are inland cities with limited countryside on the doorstep: 8% of the land around Seville is protected and 6% around Cordoba, so day trips are a modest part of either stay.

They are also close on family travel and on year-round weather. Each works with children, Cordoba through attractions and parks near the centre, Seville through 2 theme parks within reach. Neither offers sea swimming: no month reaches 21°C, and both stay mild in winter at 15-16°C.

Which traveller are you?

Eating and going out: Seville. It has about twice as many restaurants near the centre and a wider spread of kitchens, twice as many places to drink and many times as many nightclubs, most of them central.

Heritage on foot: split. Seville packs about twice as many notable places within walking distance and three times as many museums; Cordoba counters with 2 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Seville's 1.

Families: close, with different strengths. Cordoba has more attractions and more park space near the centre, useful with young children; Seville has 2 theme parks within reach, which matters more with older ones.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value comparison between these two carries no information. Both take the same national price level, so it is identical by construction rather than by measurement, and the €122 daily budget beside it is a national estimate rather than a figure recorded in either city. Neither is the cheaper trip on this evidence.

The weather reading also flatters both. The driest months are also the hottest, with highs at 36-37°C, so a month that looks clear on rainfall can be unusable in the afternoon. And Seville's 2 nearby beaches do not add up to sea swimming: neither city has a month with the water at 21°C or more.

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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Cordoba
15
17
21
24
28
33
37
37
32
26
19
16
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Cordoba
57
53
63
54
43
11
1
7
37
79
79
91
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Daylight, hours per day
Cordoba
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cordoba
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5
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. Cordoba: 1991-2020 normals, Cordoba / Aeropuerto (7.6 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Cordoba is at its best in April and May, highs of 24-28°C with rain down to 43mm. High summer is almost rainless but reaches 37°C. October is warm again but rain returns near 80mm.

Seville runs the same shape slightly cooler and drier, peaking at 36°C and holding 5 months at 40mm or less, so it is the easier pick in July and August and in a wet autumn. Its spring is the stronger of the two as well, though the gap in any given month is small.

Getting there

Flying fromCordobaSeville
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
2 h 20 m
€126-171
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 20 m
€126-171
SVQ · 9 km
BilbaoBIO
1 h 30 m
€112-119
SVQ · 111 km
1 h 30 m
€112-119
SVQ · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
ValenciaVLC
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 111 km
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 111 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

MeasureCordobaSeville
Official languageSpanishSpanish
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
Elevation120 m18 m
Main airportCórdoba Airport (ODB)8 km from centre3 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCordobaSeville
City population323,262689,423
People per km²2584,896
Museums within 10 km1624
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2752

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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.