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Botero sculptures on Plaza Botero, Medellin
MedellinBotero sculptures on Plaza Botero
Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España

Photos: Medellin by Steffen Schmitz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Medellin 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 Medellin for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Seville for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

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. Medellin 5, Seville 18: Seville leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Medellin 58, Seville 73: Seville leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Medellin 42, Seville 82: Seville leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Medellin 76, Seville 62: Medellin leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Medellin 66, Seville 52: Medellin leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Medellin 58, Seville 80: Seville leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Medellin 50, Seville 55: Seville leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Medellin 55, Seville 72: Seville leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Medellin 45, Seville 55: Seville leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Medellin 80, Seville 58: Medellin leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Medellin 42, Seville 68: Seville leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Medellin 30, Seville 40: Seville leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Medellin and Seville.

Your match

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

Medellin
51match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Seville
Best match
60match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Medellin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
133 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
12 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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Where the figures come from

Medellin has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Medellin: 1958-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Medellin / Olaya Herrera (5.2 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMedellinSeville
Official languageSpanishSpanish
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number123112
Elevation1,405 m18 m
Main airportJose Maria Córdova International Airport (MDE)19 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMedellinSeville
City population2,529,403689,423
People per km²6,6444,896
Museums within 10 km1424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.