VacationSelector

Seville or Cadiz?

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

Your match

Seville
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

Cadiz
49
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Cadiz if the sea is the reason for the trip: 29 beaches nearby against Seville's 2, water at 23°C at the peak of summer, and a small city you can cover slowly.

Choose Seville if you want an urban week: far more restaurants, bars and clubs near the centre, a deeper set of museums, and much more within walking distance.

Scoreboard

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

SevilleCadiz
Beaches & swimming. Cadiz leads by 70 points.70
SevilleCadiz
Score070
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km229
Coast distance65 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Seville leads by 22 points.22
SevilleCadiz
Score6644
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,370338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2218
Museums & heritage. Seville leads by 20 points.20
SevilleCadiz
Score5636
Museums within 10 km5023
Museums within 2 km of centre4016
Share of museums within 2 km %8070
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Seville leads by 32 points.32
SevilleCadiz
Score6230
Drinking venues within 4 km1,089241
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre679175
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6273
Nightclubs within 4 km576
Nature & day trips. Seville leads by 11 points.11
SevilleCadiz
Score3726
Protected land share 50 km %84
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km82 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Seville leads by 11 points.11
SevilleCadiz
Score6554
Tourist attractions within 2 km4780
Park area within 2 km82 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Seville leads by 24 points.24
SevilleCadiz
Score5531
Notable places within 2 km9223
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seville and Cadiz are level on 71.
SevilleCadiz
Score7171
Price level global60.860.8
Daily budget€122€122
Year-round weather. Cadiz leads by 8 points.8
SevilleCadiz
Score7583
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 36.2 °C16.2 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 78 mm0 mm to 89 mm
Dry months55
0255075100

Where they differ

Cadiz is the one with a coast: 29 beaches nearby against Seville's 2, and three months when the sea reaches 21°C or more, which Seville never does.

Seville has many times as many places to drink and many times as many nightclubs, most of them near the centre, so evenings have real range. It also holds many times as many notable places within walking distance, about twice as many museums, and 1 UNESCO-listed site within day-trip reach.

Where they are alike

Weather is where they sit closest. Both start the year at January highs of 16°C, both are dry for five months at 40mm or less, and both get plenty of sun.

They are also similar on days out and on family travel. Protected land is limited around both, a little more of it near Seville, and each has a case for children: Cadiz more attractions near the centre, Seville more park space and theme parks within reach.

Which traveller are you?

If swimming is the point, Cadiz: 29 beaches nearby, sea at 21°C or more for three months and 23°C at its warmest, against a city where the coast is not a realistic part of the day.

Museum-goers and people who like to walk a city should take Seville: a deeper set of museums, many times as many notable places within walking distance, and 1 UNESCO-listed site within day-trip reach.

Families can go either way. Cadiz has more tourist attractions near the centre; Seville has more park space, 2 theme parks within reach, and far more choice for eating out with children.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value comparison between these two carries no information: it is a national price level, identical for both by construction, and the €122 a day beside it is one national estimate rather than a measurement of either city. Nothing here says which trip costs less.

The beach case for Cadiz sits in the same window as the crowds: the sea only reaches 21°C or more in high summer, and the quiet months are also the wet ones. Seville's warm-weather standing includes July and August at 36°C, which is not sightseeing weather for everyone.

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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F
M
A
M
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J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Cadiz
16
17
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Seville
No coastline within reach
Cadiz
16
15
16
17
18
21
23
23
22
20
18
17
Rainfall, mm
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Cadiz
62
52
54
43
32
6
0
2
29
76
89
73
Daylight, hours per day
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Cadiz
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Seville
6
7
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
8
6
5
Cadiz
6
7
8
9
11
12
12
11
9
8
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre). Cadiz: 1991-2020 normals, Cadiz Bay / Puntales (5.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Cadiz is the better pick from June to September: highs of 26-28°C, sea at 21-23°C, and a midsummer that is essentially dry, 0-2mm. Its winter is mild but wet, so the beach case fades outside summer.

Seville reads better in April and May, with highs of 24-28°C, and again in October at 26°C. July and August at 36°C are hard going for walking a city, and autumn is wet in both, around 74mm in October.

Getting there

Flying fromSevilleCadiz
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
2 h 35 m
€83-157
TNG · 95 km
BilbaoBIO
1 h 30 m
€112-119
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€112-119
SVQ · 105 km
ValenciaVLC
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€50-96
SVQ · 105 km
Santiago De CompostelaSCQ
1 h 25 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
XRY · 31 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 105 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 105 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 2026-09 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

MeasureSevilleCadiz
Official languageSpanishSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation18 m11 m
Main airportSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinationsJerez Airport (XRY)31 km from centre23 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSevilleCadiz
City population689,423109,950
People per km²4,8969,087
Museums within 10 km2411
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5228
Swim season, months above 21 °C–3 months

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.