VacationSelector

Faro or Seville?

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

Your match

Faro
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Seville
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage 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 Faro if the sea is the point: 13 beaches within reach, three months when it is warm enough to swim without thinking about it, and summers that stay well below Seville's peak heat.

Choose Seville if the city itself is the trip: many times as many museums, bars and clubs, a UNESCO-listed place within day-trip reach, and most of the notable buildings within walking distance of the centre.

Scoreboard

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

FaroSeville
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 61 points.61
FaroSeville
Score610
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km132
Coast distance0 km65 km
Water distance0 km—
Places to eat. Seville leads by 22 points.22
FaroSeville
Score4466
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2551,370
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2222
Museums & heritage. Seville leads by 34 points.34
FaroSeville
Score2256
Museums within 10 km950
Museums within 2 km of centre840
Share of museums within 2 km %8980
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Seville leads by 41 points.41
FaroSeville
Score2162
Drinking venues within 4 km1431,089
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123679
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8662
Nightclubs within 4 km857
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 20 points.20
FaroSeville
Score5737
Protected land share 50 km %118
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %42100
Park area within 2 km34 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Seville leads by 29 points.29
FaroSeville
Score3665
Tourist attractions within 2 km1047
Park area within 2 km34 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Seville leads by 33 points.33
FaroSeville
Score2255
Notable places within 2 km1492
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 3 points.3
FaroSeville
Score7471
Price level global55.960.8
Daily budget€109€122
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 8 points.8
FaroSeville
Score8375
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C16.3 °C to 36.2 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm1 mm to 78 mm
Dry months65
0255075100

Where they differ

Faro is the one with a coast: 13 beaches nearby against Seville's 2, and three months when the sea reaches 21°C or more, which Seville never manages. More of the land around it is protected, 11% against 8%.

Seville has many times as many museums as Faro, plus a UNESCO-listed place within day-trip reach where Faro has none. Its bars and nightclubs outnumber Faro's several times over, most of them near the centre, and there are far more restaurants there too.

Where they are alike

Both sit in countries whose estimated daily budgets are close, €109 for Portugal against €122 for Spain. These are national price levels rather than city measurements, so on that basis neither trip starts from a very different place.

Their weather tracks alike at the extremes: winter highs of 16°C in both, and a high summer that dries out almost entirely, down to 1mm of rain. Both also have protected countryside and city parks within easy reach.

Which traveller are you?

Swimmers and beach-first travellers should take Faro: 13 beaches nearby against Seville's 2, and three months of sea at 21°C or more, a season Seville cannot offer at all.

City breakers after museums, bars and late nights should take Seville: many times as many museums and drinking places, a UNESCO-listed site within day-trip reach, and enough notable buildings close together to fill a weekend on foot.

Families are better served in Seville, with far more attractions near the centre and about twice the park space, though both have 2 theme parks within reach and Faro's summers are less punishing.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures, €109 for Portugal and €122 for Spain, are national price levels, not measurements of Faro or Seville. A large, heavily visited city can sit well away from its own country's average, by more than the gap between these two figures, so they cannot tell you which of the two costs more on the ground.

Faro's coast and Seville's weather both read better across the year than in midsummer: Faro's warmest sea arrives in the busiest weeks, and Seville's highs of 36°C come with no sea nearby. Both turn wet late in the year, Faro reaching 102mm.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Seville
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
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. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Faro's warm window runs long, May to September, with daytime highs of 24-29°C and the sea at its warmest, 22°C, in August. High summer is close to rainless. The wet stretch sits at the end of the year, 102mm in December.

Seville is better in spring, April and May at 24-28°C, before midsummer highs of 36°C with no sea to cool off in. Autumn works too, though October carries 74mm.

Getting there

Flying fromFaroSeville
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
€46-52
FAO · 3 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
2 h 50 m
€180-230
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
LisbonLIS
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 20 m
no fares
FAO · 3 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

MeasureFaroSeville
Official languagePortugueseSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m18 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroSeville
City population64,560689,423
People per km²3194,896
Museums within 10 km224
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3452
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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). 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.