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The Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower, Johannesburg
JohannesburgThe Johannesburg skyline and the Hillbrow Tower
Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España

Photos: Johannesburg by K, Pexels License; Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Johannesburg or Seville?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Johannesburg for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Johannesburg’s own page.

Choose Seville for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Seville’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Johannesburg 5, Seville 18: Seville leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Johannesburg 58, Seville 73: Seville leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Johannesburg 56, Seville 82: Seville leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Johannesburg and Seville are level on 62.
Nature & outdoors. Johannesburg 55, Seville 52: Johannesburg leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Johannesburg 52, Seville 80: Seville leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Johannesburg 42, Seville 55: Seville leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Johannesburg 18, Seville 72: Seville leads by 54 points.
Shopping & style. Johannesburg 58, Seville 55: Johannesburg leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Johannesburg 72, Seville 58: Johannesburg leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Johannesburg 55, Seville 68: Seville leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Johannesburg 28, Seville 40: Seville leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Johannesburg and Seville.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Johannesburg
47match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Seville
Best match
60match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Johannesburg in July

19 °Cdaytime high
4 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
11 hdaylight a day

Seville in July

36 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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JohannesburgSeville

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Johannesburg: 2005-2019 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Johannesburg B / Roosevelt Park (7.3 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureJohannesburgSeville
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign LanguageSpanish
CurrencyRand (ZAR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1,753 m18 m
Main airportO.R. Tambo International Airport (JNB)22 km from centre84 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureJohannesburgSeville
City population4,803,262689,423
People per km²2,9224,896
Museums within 10 km1424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.