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The statue of Columbus in Parque Colon before the cathedral, Santo Domingo
Santo DomingoThe statue of Columbus in Parque Colon before the cathedral
Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España

Photos: Santo Domingo by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Santo Domingo 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 Santo Domingo for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Santo Domingo’s own page.

Choose Seville for

  • day trips
  • 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. Santo Domingo 58, Seville 18: Santo Domingo leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Santo Domingo 58, Seville 73: Seville leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Santo Domingo 64, Seville 82: Seville leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Santo Domingo 66, Seville 62: Santo Domingo leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Santo Domingo 36, Seville 52: Seville leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Santo Domingo 44, Seville 80: Seville leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Santo Domingo 40, Seville 55: Seville leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Santo Domingo 40, Seville 72: Seville leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Santo Domingo 44, Seville 55: Seville leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Santo Domingo 66, Seville 58: Santo Domingo leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Santo Domingo 46, Seville 68: Seville leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Santo Domingo 22, Seville 40: Seville leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Santo Domingo and Seville.

Your match

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

Santo Domingo
49match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Seville
Best match
60match

Wins on day trips 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.

Santo Domingo in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
183 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Santo Domingo 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. Santo Domingo: 1991-2020 normals, Santo Domingo (6.4 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSanto DomingoSeville
Official languageSpanishSpanish
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation14 m18 m
Main airportLas Américas International Airport (SDQ)28 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSanto DomingoSeville
City population2,201,941689,423
People per km²1,6914,896
Museums within 10 km1024
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

Where else could you go?

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