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Seville or Granada?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Seville
54
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

Granada
53
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat 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 Granada if getting out of the city matters more than the city itself, and if you want warm shoulder seasons with less autumn rain while walking a compact centre.

Choose Seville if you want the walkable core: more museums, more places to drink, more restaurants near the centre, plus park space and theme parks for children. It runs warmer, reaching 36°C in July.

Scoreboard

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

SevilleGranada
Beaches & swimming. Seville and Granada are level on 0.
SevilleGranada
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km20
Coast distance65 km48 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Granada leads by 1 points.1
SevilleGranada
Score6667
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,370872
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2234
Museums & heritage. Seville leads by 8 points.8
SevilleGranada
Score5648
Museums within 10 km5028
Museums within 2 km of centre4026
Share of museums within 2 km %8093
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Seville leads by 10 points.10
SevilleGranada
Score6252
Drinking venues within 4 km1,089637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre679494
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6278
Nightclubs within 4 km5746
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 26 points.26
SevilleGranada
Score3763
Protected land share 50 km %827
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10096
Park area within 2 km82 hectares46 hectares
Good for families. Seville leads by 9 points.9
SevilleGranada
Score6556
Tourist attractions within 2 km4760
Park area within 2 km82 hectares46 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Seville leads by 11 points.11
SevilleGranada
Score5544
Notable places within 2 km9250
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seville and Granada are level on 71.
SevilleGranada
Score7171
Price level global60.860.8
Daily budget€122€122
Year-round weather. Seville leads by 1 points.1
SevilleGranada
Score7574
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 36.2 °C13.1 °C to 34.8 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 78 mm0 mm to 51 mm
Dry months57
0255075100

Where they differ

Granada is the better base for getting out of town: 27% of the surrounding land is protected against 8% around Seville, and it has somewhat more tourist attractions near the centre. Its kitchens cover a wider range, even if there are fewer restaurants overall.

Seville packs more into a walkable centre: about twice as many notable places within walking distance, twice as many museums and places to drink, with somewhat more nightclubs, most of them central. It also has more park space and 2 theme parks within reach.

Where they are alike

Neither is a place to swim. Seville has 2 beaches within reach and Granada none, but neither gets a month of sea at 21°C or more, so the coast is a detour rather than part of the trip.

Both are hot in summer and mild in winter, with highs of 13-35°C in Granada and 16-36°C in Seville and over 3,000 sunshine hours a year. Eating out is a strength in both, Seville with more restaurants centrally, Granada with wider variety.

Which traveller are you?

A traveller who wants heritage on foot should take Seville: about twice as many museums as Granada and more notable places within walking distance of the centre, so days need less planning and less transport.

Anyone who plans to leave the city belongs in Granada, where 27% of the surrounding land is protected against 8% around Seville, making day trips into open country a real part of the week rather than an afterthought.

Families are better served in Seville, with more park space near the centre and 2 theme parks within reach where Granada has none; Granada counters with more attractions in the centre itself.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value figure is a national price level, identical for both by construction, so it tells you nothing about which of these two cities costs less. The daily budget of €122 is one national estimate rather than a measurement of either place.

Seville's 2 beaches nearby do not make a swimming trip, since neither city has a month with sea at 21°C or more. The broadly good weather also hides high summer, when both reach 34°C or higher and the heat limits what you can do outdoors; Seville's extra warmth comes with heavier rain in autumn and winter.

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
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Rainfall, mm
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Daylight, hours per day
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Seville
6
7
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
8
6
5
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
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). Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Granada is at its best in May, near 25°C, and again in September at 29°C, when the heat has eased but the days are still long. Autumn is drier here than in Seville: 51mm of rain in November against 72mm, which matters if you are walking.

Seville is the better early-spring choice, running warmer through March and April and opening the season sooner. Its October is warm but among the wettest months of its year, at 74mm. Both are hard going in high summer, when highs pass 34°C.

Getting there

Flying fromSevilleGranada
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 30 m
€92-138
GRX · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€180-230
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 40 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
DublinDUB
2 h 45 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 97 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 97 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 2026-08 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

MeasureSevilleGranada
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 m693 m
Main airportSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinationsF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSevilleGranada
City population689,423233,975
People per km²4,8962,659
Museums within 10 km2419
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5262

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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. 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.