VacationSelector

Dubai 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, 1 point apart

Dubai
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Seville
54
match

Wins on nature & day trips and museums & heritage 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.

DubaiSeville
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 100 points.100
DubaiSeville
Score1000
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km522
Coast distance0 km65 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Dubai and Seville are level on 66.
DubaiSeville
Score6666
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0861,370
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2622
Museums & heritage. Seville leads by 18 points.18
DubaiSeville
Score3856
Museums within 10 km2650
Museums within 2 km of centre1840
Share of museums within 2 km %6980
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Seville leads by 9 points.9
DubaiSeville
Score5362
Drinking venues within 4 km6011,089
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre306679
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5162
Nightclubs within 4 km8457
Nature & day trips. Seville leads by 19 points.19
DubaiSeville
Score1837
Protected land share 50 km %48
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %52100
Park area within 2 km13 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Seville leads by 16 points.16
DubaiSeville
Score4965
Tourist attractions within 2 km3747
Park area within 2 km13 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Seville leads by 18 points.18
DubaiSeville
Score3755
Notable places within 2 km3392
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seville leads by 2 points.2
DubaiSeville
Score6971
Price level global63.460.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Seville leads by 9 points.9
DubaiSeville
Score6675
Monthly daytime high24.5 °C to 42.1 °C16.3 °C to 36.2 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 21 mm1 mm to 78 mm
Dry months125
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
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Seville
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Daylight, hours per day
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubai
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. Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubaiSeville
BarcelonaBCN
6 h 45 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€226-241
DXB · 7 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
6 h 50 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
PalmaPMI
6 h 40 m
no fares
AUH · 114 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MadridMAD
7 h 20 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
6 h 45 m
€334-439
DXB · 7 km
2 h 50 m
€180-230
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 15 m
€175-294
DXB · 7 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
5 h 45 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
ViennaVIE
5 h 40 m
€283-323
DXB · 7 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MunichMUC
6 h 0 m
€306-356
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
2 h 50 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

MeasureDubaiSeville
Official languageArabicSpanish
CurrencyUAE Dirham (AED)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m18 m
Main airportDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubaiSeville
City population3,944,751689,423
People per km²4,896
Museums within 10 km1424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre5252
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.