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A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town
Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España

Photos: San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

San Miguel de Allende 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 Miguel de Allende for

  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’s own page.

Choose Seville for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • getting around

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 Miguel de Allende 4, Seville 18: Seville leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. San Miguel de Allende 62, Seville 73: Seville leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. San Miguel de Allende 62, Seville 82: Seville leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. San Miguel de Allende 38, Seville 62: Seville leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. San Miguel de Allende 40, Seville 52: Seville leads by 12 points.
Day trips. San Miguel de Allende 77, Seville 80: Seville leads by 3 points.
Good for families. San Miguel de Allende 32, Seville 55: Seville leads by 23 points.
Getting around. San Miguel de Allende 48, Seville 72: Seville leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. San Miguel de Allende and Seville are level on 55.
Affordability. San Miguel de Allende 50, Seville 58: Seville leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Miguel de Allende 40, Seville 68: Seville leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Miguel de Allende 66, Seville 40: San Miguel de Allende leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Miguel de Allende and Seville.

Your match

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

San Miguel de Allende
48match

Wins on wellness with your weighting.

Seville
Best match
60match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
13 hdaylight a day

Seville in July

36 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSan Miguel de AllendeSeville
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaSpanish
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,900 m18 m
Main airportGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan Miguel de AllendeSeville
City population69,811689,423
People per km²-4,896
Museums within 10 km224
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21

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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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.