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A bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay, Montego Bay
Montego BayA bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay
Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España

Photos: Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License; Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Montego Bay 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 Montego Bay for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Seville for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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. Montego Bay 84, Seville 18: Montego Bay leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Montego Bay 50, Seville 73: Seville leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Montego Bay 28, Seville 82: Seville leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Montego Bay 42, Seville 62: Seville leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montego Bay 65, Seville 52: Montego Bay leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Montego Bay 50, Seville 80: Seville leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Montego Bay 48, Seville 55: Seville leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Montego Bay 20, Seville 72: Seville leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Montego Bay 25, Seville 55: Seville leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Montego Bay 38, Seville 58: Seville leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montego Bay 32, Seville 68: Seville leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montego Bay 45, Seville 40: Montego Bay leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montego Bay and Seville.

Your match

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

Montego Bay
44match

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

Seville
Best match
60match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Montego Bay in July

34 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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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Montego BaySeville

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontego BaySeville
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisSpanish
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110112
Elevation19 m18 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontego BaySeville
City population123,994689,423
People per km²-4,896
Museums within 10 km024
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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). 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.