VacationSelector

San Jose or Seville?

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

Your match

San Jose
39
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Seville
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

San JoseSeville
Beaches & swimming. San Jose leads by 8 points.8
San JoseSeville
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km12
Coast distance14 km65 km
Water distance14 km—
Places to eat. Seville leads by 25 points.25
San JoseSeville
Score4166
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3131,370
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1622
Museums & heritage. Seville leads by 30 points.30
San JoseSeville
Score2656
Museums within 10 km2050
Museums within 2 km of centre940
Share of museums within 2 km %4580
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Seville leads by 31 points.31
San JoseSeville
Score3162
Drinking venues within 4 km2311,089
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre88679
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3862
Nightclubs within 4 km1657
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 33 points.33
San JoseSeville
Score7037
Protected land share 50 km %268
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %91100
Park area within 2 km101 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Seville leads by 32 points.32
San JoseSeville
Score3365
Tourist attractions within 2 km247
Park area within 2 km101 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Seville leads by 41 points.41
San JoseSeville
Score1455
Notable places within 2 km992
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seville leads by 28 points.28
San JoseSeville
Score4371
Price level global10060.8
Daily budget—€122
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 10 points.10
San JoseSeville
Score8575
Monthly daytime high15.4 °C to 26.8 °C16.3 °C to 36.2 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 78 mm1 mm to 78 mm
Dry months85
0255075100

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
San Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Seville
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Daylight, hours per day
San Jose
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
San Jose
No sunshine record
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. San Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan JoseSeville
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 55 m
€653-1326
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MadridMAD
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 30 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 50 m
€180-230
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
LisbonLIS
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 9 km
DublinDUB
10 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MunichMUC
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 50 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

MeasureSan JoseSeville
Official language–Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation25 m18 m
Main airportMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan JoseSeville
City population1,013,240689,423
People per km²2,1674,896
Museums within 10 km1924
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3052
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). 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.