VacationSelector

Lisbon or Seville?

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

Your match

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

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

Seville
54
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Lisbon if you want the coast within reach, 24 beaches nearby, more museums and a wider choice of restaurants, plus more to walk to around the centre.

Choose Seville if heat suits you and you are travelling in spring or autumn, when daytime highs sit around 24-28°C and rain is light, and if you prefer sights and museums clustered tightly together.

Scoreboard

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

LisbonSeville
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 57 points.57
LisbonSeville
Score570
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km242
Coast distance2 km65 km
Water distance2 km—
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 14 points.14
LisbonSeville
Score8066
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,4961,370
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3122
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 14 points.14
LisbonSeville
Score7056
Museums within 10 km12450
Museums within 2 km of centre5440
Share of museums within 2 km %4480
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 3 points.3
LisbonSeville
Score6562
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2251,089
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre956679
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7862
Nightclubs within 4 km6557
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 19 points.19
LisbonSeville
Score5637
Protected land share 50 km %118
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %54100
Park area within 2 km77 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 4 points.4
LisbonSeville
Score6965
Tourist attractions within 2 km8247
Park area within 2 km77 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 11 points.11
LisbonSeville
Score6655
Notable places within 2 km16992
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 3 points.3
LisbonSeville
Score7471
Price level global55.960.8
Daily budget€109€122
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 3 points.3
LisbonSeville
Score7875
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C16.3 °C to 36.2 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 mm1 mm to 78 mm
Dry months45
0255075100

Where they differ

Lisbon has about twice as many restaurants near the centre and a somewhat wider range of kitchens, about twice as many museums, and more UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach. It has 24 beaches nearby against Seville's 2, more protected land around it, 11% against 8%, and about twice as many notable places within walking distance of the centre.

Seville runs warmer across the year, with daytime highs of 16-36°C against Lisbon's 15-28°C. Its museums sit more tightly around the centre, and 2 theme parks lie within reach.

Where they are alike

Nights out look much alike: similar numbers of places to drink and of nightclubs in each, most of them near the centre, so an evening can be walked rather than planned around transport.

Families and year-round weather are close too: comparable park space near the centre, and mild winters in both, with January highs of 15-16°C. The national price estimates behind the two countries are near each other as well, €109 and €122 a day.

Which traveller are you?

If swimming and coast time matter, Lisbon: 24 beaches nearby against Seville's 2, though the sea peaks at 19°C, so expect brisk water rather than warm.

For museums and walking, Lisbon again: about twice as many museums and about twice as many notable places within walking distance of the centre, plus more UNESCO-listed sites within day-trip reach. Seville's smaller set sits tightly together.

Families can go either way: comparable park space near the centre in both, with Lisbon holding about twice as many attractions near the centre, while Seville has 2 theme parks within reach and suits an April or May trip.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures, €109 and €122, are national price levels for Portugal and Spain, not measurements of Lisbon or Seville. A capital and a heavily visited city can sit well above their own country average, by more than the gap between the two figures, so treat them as background only.

Lisbon's beach advantage is about count and access, not swimming comfort: the sea never reaches 21°C, and the warmest water comes late in the season, after the busiest weeks. Seville's warmth cuts both ways, since the mildness that helps in winter comes with midsummer highs of 36°C, which is why its own strongest months fall in spring and autumn.

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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Seville
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
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. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Lisbon is at its best from June to September: highs of 26-28°C, almost no rain at 3-13mm in July and August, and sea at its warmest, 19°C, late in that run. Autumn and winter are wet, above 100mm a month.

Seville is the better spring pick, in April and May, when highs run 24-28°C with less rain than Lisbon sees then. October stays warm but wetter. July and August reach 36°C, which limits walking in the middle of the day.

Getting there

Flying fromLisbonSeville
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 50 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 50 m
€120-145
LIS · 7 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
2 h 50 m
€180-230
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 35 m
€124-144
LIS · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 40 m
€129-223
LIS · 7 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 35 m
€95-118
LIS · 7 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

MeasureLisbonSeville
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
Elevation100 m18 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonSeville
City population545,796689,423
People per km²5,4534,896
Museums within 10 km7824
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre10652
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. 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.