VacationSelector
A cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan, San Juan
San JuanA cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan
Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España

Photos: San Juan by Mohan Nannapaneni, Pexels License; Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

San Juan 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 San Juan for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

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

Choose Seville for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • prices

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. San Juan 84, Seville 18: San Juan leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. San Juan 66, Seville 73: Seville leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. San Juan 64, Seville 82: Seville leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. San Juan 70, Seville 62: San Juan leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. San Juan 74, Seville 52: San Juan leads by 22 points.
Day trips. San Juan 52, Seville 80: Seville leads by 28 points.
Good for families. San Juan 58, Seville 55: San Juan leads by 3 points.
Getting around. San Juan 38, Seville 72: Seville leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. San Juan 50, Seville 55: Seville leads by 5 points.
Affordability. San Juan 38, Seville 58: Seville leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Juan 55, Seville 68: Seville leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Juan and Seville are level on 40.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Juan and Seville.

Your match

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

San Juan
57match

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

Seville
Best match
60match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

San Juan in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
28 °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

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

050100150200JFMAMJJASOND
San JuanSeville

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. San Juan: 1991-2020 normals, San Juan / Int., Puerto Rico (12.8 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSan JuanSeville
Official languageSpanish, EnglishSpanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3 m18 m
Main airportLuis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan JuanSeville
City population342,259689,423
People per km²2,8474,896
Museums within 10 km1824
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow San Juan or Seville somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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