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Hamburg 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

Hamburg
53
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

HamburgSeville
Beaches & swimming. Hamburg and Seville are level on 0.
HamburgSeville
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km162
Coast distance22 km65 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 7 points.7
HamburgSeville
Score7366
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1501,370
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3822
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 4 points.4
HamburgSeville
Score6056
Museums within 10 km9450
Museums within 2 km of centre5040
Share of museums within 2 km %5380
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 6 points.6
HamburgSeville
Score6862
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3391,089
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre834679
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6262
Nightclubs within 4 km11957
Nature & day trips. Hamburg leads by 3 points.3
HamburgSeville
Score4037
Protected land share 50 km %148
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %99100
Park area within 2 km89 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Seville leads by 5 points.5
HamburgSeville
Score6065
Tourist attractions within 2 km4047
Park area within 2 km89 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Hamburg leads by 4 points.4
HamburgSeville
Score5955
Notable places within 2 km11892
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seville leads by 11 points.11
HamburgSeville
Score6071
Price level global75.960.8
Daily budget€163€122
Year-round weather. Seville leads by 20 points.20
HamburgSeville
Score5575
Monthly daytime high4.3 °C to 23.2 °C16.3 °C to 36.2 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 82 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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Daylight, hours per day
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
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. Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHamburgSeville
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€127-153
HAM · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€193
HAM · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 50 m
€415-451
2 stops
HAM · 9 km
2 h 20 m
€126-171
SVQ · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
4 h 0 m
no fares
HAM · 9 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

MeasureHamburgSeville
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
Elevation6 m18 m
Main airportHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureHamburgSeville
City population1,910,160689,423
People per km²2,5304,896
Museums within 10 km7724
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8352

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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.