VacationSelector

Porto or Seville?

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

Your match

Porto
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Seville
54
match

Wins on nightlife and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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

The verdict

Choose Porto if you want the coast within reach, 52 beaches nearby, and a denser run of museums, with mild summers topping out around 25°C.

Choose Seville if you want heat and dry sky, with more nightclubs and drinking places near the centre, and are content with a city trip where swimming is not part of the plan.

Scoreboard

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

PortoSeville
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 60 points.60
PortoSeville
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km522
Coast distance4 km65 km
Water distance3 km—
Places to eat. Porto leads by 2 points.2
PortoSeville
Score6866
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1721,370
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2722
Museums & heritage. Porto leads by 15 points.15
PortoSeville
Score7156
Museums within 10 km10150
Museums within 2 km of centre5740
Share of museums within 2 km %5680
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Seville leads by 4 points.4
PortoSeville
Score5862
Drinking venues within 4 km9001,089
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre570679
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6362
Nightclubs within 4 km3857
Nature & day trips. Seville leads by 4 points.4
PortoSeville
Score3337
Protected land share 50 km %78
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km30 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Porto and Seville are level on 65.
PortoSeville
Score6565
Tourist attractions within 2 km12247
Park area within 2 km30 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Seville leads by 1 points.1
PortoSeville
Score5455
Notable places within 2 km8592
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 3 points.3
PortoSeville
Score7471
Price level global55.960.8
Daily budget€109€122
Year-round weather. Seville leads by 4 points.4
PortoSeville
Score7175
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 25.2 °C16.3 °C to 36.2 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 181 mm1 mm to 78 mm
Dry months35
0255075100

Where they differ

Porto has 52 beaches nearby against Seville's 2, and about twice as many museums, with 3 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Seville's 1. Neither has a month of sea warm enough for easy swimming; Porto's peaks at 17°C.

Seville runs warmer through the year, with daytime highs of 16-36°C against Porto's 14-25°C, and more months at 40mm of rain or less. Nights out are its stronger suit too: somewhat more places to drink and about twice as many nightclubs, most of them near the centre.

Where they are alike

Families are served about equally well. Porto has roughly three times as many tourist attractions near the centre; Seville has about three times as much park space and 2 theme parks within reach against Porto's 1.

They are also close on walkable sightseeing and eating out: both hold a similar number of notable places within walking distance of the centre, with somewhat more restaurants near Seville's centre and a somewhat wider range of kitchens in Porto.

Which traveller are you?

If the coast is the point, Porto: 52 beaches within reach against Seville's 2, though at 17°C at best the sea suits short swims rather than long afternoons in the water.

For museums and old streets, Porto again: about twice as many museums as Seville, and 3 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against 1, even if Seville's museums sit more tightly around its centre.

For late nights and dry heat, Seville: somewhat more places to drink, about twice as many nightclubs, most of them near the centre, and summer highs of 36°C with very little summer rain.

What the numbers don't tell you

Porto's 52 beaches say more about coastline than about swimming: the sea never passes 17°C, so the water stays bracing in any month, and the reliably dry stretch is short.

The daily budget figures, €109 and €122, are national price levels for restaurants and hotels rather than measurements of Porto or Seville. A heavily visited city can sit further from its own country's average than these two figures sit from each other, so the gap between them is no guide to what either trip costs.

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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M
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S
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Seville
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Daylight, hours per day
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4
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. Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Porto is at its best from June to September, when highs sit at 23-25°C and July, the driest month, sees 22mm. The sea only reaches 17°C at its warmest. Winter is the trade-off, with 181mm falling in November.

Seville suits spring and autumn. April and May bring 24-28°C with modest rain, and October is still 26°C but wetter, at 74mm. July and August reach 36°C, hard going for daytime sightseeing.

Getting there

Flying fromPortoSeville
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 9 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 50 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 10 m
€128-166
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 25 m
€90-185
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€81-96
OPO · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 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

MeasurePortoSeville
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
Elevation104 m18 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre132 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoSeville
City population231,800689,423
People per km²5,5994,896
Museums within 10 km4224
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre7052
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.