VacationSelector

Seville or Madrid?

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

Your match

Seville
54
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration 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 Madrid if you want the fuller city: more museums and more to walk between in the centre, a wider choice of places to eat and drink late, and more open countryside within day-trip reach.

Choose Seville if steady warmth matters most: highs of 16-36°C across the year against Madrid's 10-33°C, more annual sunshine, and spring months that are comfortable while Madrid is still cool.

Scoreboard

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

SevilleMadrid
Beaches & swimming. Seville and Madrid are level on 0.
SevilleMadrid
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km24
Coast distance65 km305 km
Water distance——
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 17 points.17
SevilleMadrid
Score6683
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3703,508
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2228
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 19 points.19
SevilleMadrid
Score5675
Museums within 10 km5097
Museums within 2 km of centre4059
Share of museums within 2 km %8061
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 19 points.19
SevilleMadrid
Score6281
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0892,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6791,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6262
Nightclubs within 4 km57341
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 26 points.26
SevilleMadrid
Score3763
Protected land share 50 km %819
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km82 hectares187 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 12 points.12
SevilleMadrid
Score6577
Tourist attractions within 2 km4761
Park area within 2 km82 hectares187 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 20 points.20
SevilleMadrid
Score5575
Notable places within 2 km92288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seville and Madrid are level on 71.
SevilleMadrid
Score7171
Price level global60.860.8
Daily budget€122€122
Year-round weather. Seville leads by 3 points.3
SevilleMadrid
Score7572
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 36.2 °C10 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 78 mm9 mm to 64 mm
Dry months57
0255075100

Where they differ

Madrid has far more protected countryside around it, 19% of the surrounding land against 8%, and about twice as much park space near the centre. Its historic side runs deeper too: roughly twice as many museums, and 4 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against Seville's 1. About three times as many notable places sit within walking distance of the centre.

Seville is the warmer city, 16-36°C through the year against 10-33°C, with more sunshine, and a far smaller population to move through.

Where they are alike

Neither is a swimming destination. Madrid has 4 beaches nearby and Seville 2, and neither has a month with sea at 21°C or more, so either is a city trip first.

Their weather sits in similar territory: hot, dry summers with July rain at 10mm or less in both, and daytime highs above 10°C even in January. Both also draw on the same national price level, so neither reads as the cheaper trip.

Which traveller are you?

Museum and city-walking travellers should take Madrid: about twice as many museums, 4 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against 1, and roughly three times as many notable places within walking distance of the centre.

Families lean Madrid too. It has more attractions near the centre, about twice as much park space, and 3 theme parks within reach against Seville's 2, with protected countryside for day trips.

Anyone travelling in late winter or early spring should pick Seville, where highs reach 22-24°C in March and April while Madrid sits at 16-19°C, though autumn and early winter are wetter there.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value comparison between these two tells you nothing. It is a national price level, identical for both by construction, and the €122 daily figure beside it is one country-wide estimate rather than a measurement of either city, so treat neither as the cheaper option.

Warmth cuts both ways. Seville's year-round mildness comes with July and August at 36°C, when the outdoor day shrinks, and its calmer months are also its wettest, with October to December above 70mm. Madrid's driest months are its hottest, so little rain there is not the same as comfort.

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.

J
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Daylight, hours per day
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Seville
6
7
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
8
6
5
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4

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). Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Madrid is at its best in June and September: highs of 29°C and 27°C, with rain down to 20-24mm. May is pleasant at 23°C but wetter, and October is its wettest month at 64mm.

Seville comes good earlier, March to May, when highs run 22-28°C and rain eases off. July and August push to 36°C, which is hard work. Winters are milder than Madrid's, 16°C against 10°C in January, but November to January bring 56-72mm.

Getting there

Flying fromSevilleMadrid
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 20 m
€56-238
MAD · 14 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
2 h 20 m
€126-171
SVQ · 9 km
2 h 50 m
€109-153
MAD · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
Las PalmasLPA
2 h 15 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
2 h 45 m
€77-197
MAD · 14 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 15 m
€40-87
MAD · 14 km
BilbaoBIO
1 h 30 m
€112-119
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 0 m
€109-114
MAD · 14 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
MAD · 14 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

MeasureSevilleMadrid
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 m663 m
Main airportSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSevilleMadrid
City population689,4233,506,730
People per km²4,8965,801
Museums within 10 km2488
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre52106

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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.