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Ca' d'Zan, the Ringling mansion on Sarasota Bay, Sarasota
SarasotaCa' d'Zan, the Ringling mansion on Sarasota Bay
Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España

Photos: Sarasota by Oleg Yunakov, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Sarasota 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 Sarasota for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Seville for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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. Sarasota 86, Seville 18: Sarasota leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Sarasota 44, Seville 73: Seville leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Sarasota 45, Seville 82: Seville leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Sarasota 28, Seville 62: Seville leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sarasota 55, Seville 52: Sarasota leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Sarasota 50, Seville 80: Seville leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Sarasota 68, Seville 55: Sarasota leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Sarasota 28, Seville 72: Seville leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Sarasota 40, Seville 55: Seville leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Sarasota 30, Seville 58: Seville leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sarasota 58, Seville 68: Seville leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sarasota 45, Seville 40: Sarasota leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sarasota and Seville.

Your match

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

Sarasota
48match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Seville
Best match
60match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Sarasota in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
195 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 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

Sarasota 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.

Sarasota's sunshine is measured 70 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sarasota: 2006-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sarasota / Ballentine Manor (6.7 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSarasotaSeville
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation7 m18 m
Main airportSarasota Bradenton International Airport (SRQ)7 km from centre70 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSarasotaSeville
City population54,842689,423
People per km²8404,896
Museums within 10 km324
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months-

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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). 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.