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A purple lifeguard tower on South Beach, Miami Beach
Miami BeachA purple lifeguard tower on South Beach
Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España

Photos: Miami Beach by Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Miami Beach 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 Miami Beach for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • wellness

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

Choose Seville for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • 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. Miami Beach 92, Seville 18: Miami Beach leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Miami Beach 62, Seville 73: Seville leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Miami Beach 52, Seville 82: Seville leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Miami Beach 80, Seville 62: Miami Beach leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Miami Beach and Seville are level on 52.
Day trips. Miami Beach 55, Seville 80: Seville leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Miami Beach 60, Seville 55: Miami Beach leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Miami Beach 58, Seville 72: Seville leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Miami Beach and Seville are level on 55.
Affordability. Miami Beach 20, Seville 58: Seville leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Miami Beach 55, Seville 68: Seville leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Miami Beach 48, Seville 40: Miami Beach leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Miami Beach and Seville.

Your match

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

Miami Beach
57match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Seville
Best match
60match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Miami Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
186 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Seville in July

36 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Miami BeachSeville

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Miami Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (18.8 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMiami BeachSeville
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1 m18 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)16 km from centre198 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiami BeachSeville
City population82,890689,423
People per km²2,1094,896
Museums within 10 km1424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.