VacationSelector

Ghent or Seville?

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

Your match

Ghent
50
match

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

Seville
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on year-round weather and good for families 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.

GhentSeville
Beaches & swimming. Ghent leads by 26 points.26
GhentSeville
Score260
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km82
Coast distance32 km65 km
Water distance32 km—
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 4 points.4
GhentSeville
Score7066
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7641,370
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4922
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 2 points.2
GhentSeville
Score5856
Museums within 10 km2450
Museums within 2 km of centre2040
Share of museums within 2 km %8380
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Seville leads by 13 points.13
GhentSeville
Score4962
Drinking venues within 4 km5701,089
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre446679
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7862
Nightclubs within 4 km2657
Nature & day trips. Seville leads by 3 points.3
GhentSeville
Score3437
Protected land share 50 km %78
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %87100
Park area within 2 km84 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Seville leads by 15 points.15
GhentSeville
Score5065
Tourist attractions within 2 km1947
Park area within 2 km84 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Seville leads by 9 points.9
GhentSeville
Score4655
Notable places within 2 km5592
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seville leads by 11 points.11
GhentSeville
Score6071
Price level global76.260.8
Daily budget€180€122
Year-round weather. Seville leads by 19 points.19
GhentSeville
Score5675
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C16.3 °C to 36.2 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm1 mm to 78 mm
Dry months15
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Seville
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
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. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentSeville
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€120-263
BRU · 56 km
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 56 km
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 9 km
ValenciaVLC
2 h 15 m
€101-155
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 56 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

MeasureGhentSeville
Official languageFrench, German, DutchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation12 m18 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentSeville
City population272,657689,423
People per km²1,7284,896
Museums within 10 km3024
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre8352
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone–

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.