VacationSelector

Seville or Malaga?

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 sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

Malaga
✓ Best match
59
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 Malaga if the sea matters: 21 beaches nearby and three months warm enough to swim, with a summer that stays cooler than Seville's.

Choose Seville if the city itself is the point: about three times as many notable places within walking distance of the centre, more places to drink after dark, and theme parks within reach for children.

Scoreboard

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

SevilleMalaga
Beaches & swimming. Malaga leads by 66 points.66
SevilleMalaga
Score066
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km221
Coast distance65 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Malaga leads by 3 points.3
SevilleMalaga
Score6669
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3701,002
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2234
Museums & heritage. Seville leads by 3 points.3
SevilleMalaga
Score5653
Museums within 10 km5040
Museums within 2 km of centre4035
Share of museums within 2 km %8088
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Seville leads by 8 points.8
SevilleMalaga
Score6254
Drinking venues within 4 km1,089715
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre679486
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6268
Nightclubs within 4 km5745
Nature & day trips. Malaga leads by 6 points.6
SevilleMalaga
Score3743
Protected land share 50 km %87
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10063
Park area within 2 km82 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Seville leads by 12 points.12
SevilleMalaga
Score6553
Tourist attractions within 2 km4733
Park area within 2 km82 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Seville leads by 18 points.18
SevilleMalaga
Score5537
Notable places within 2 km9233
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seville and Malaga are level on 71.
SevilleMalaga
Score7171
Price level global60.860.8
Daily budget€122€122
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 7 points.7
SevilleMalaga
Score7582
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 36.2 °C17.2 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 78 mm0 mm to 88 mm
Dry months55
0255075100

Where they differ

Malaga is the coastal option: 21 beaches nearby against Seville's 2, and three months with the sea at 21°C or more, which Seville has none of. Its kitchens cover a wider range, and its summer tops out at 32°C rather than 36°C.

Seville puts far more within walking range, with about three times as many notable places near the centre and roughly twice as many places to drink, plus somewhat more nightclubs. It also has more attractions for families and 2 theme parks within reach, where Malaga has none.

Where they are alike

Eating out is close to a draw. Both put plenty of restaurants within reach of the centre, Seville slightly more, while Malaga's range of kitchens is the wider of the two.

Heritage is similarly matched, with Seville holding somewhat more museums and each having 1 UNESCO-listed place within day-trip reach. Nature is modest on both sides: protected land runs to 8% around Seville and 7% around Malaga, with comparable park space near each centre.

Which traveller are you?

If swimming is the reason for the trip, Malaga: 21 beaches within reach and a sea that climbs to 23°C in August, where Seville has almost no coast to speak of.

For museums, walkable sightseeing and long evenings, Seville: notable places cluster tightly around the centre, there are roughly twice as many places to drink, and somewhat more museums than Malaga.

Families with children lean to Seville for the attractions near the centre and 2 theme parks within reach, though Malaga's gentler summer and its beaches suit younger children better in July and August.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value comparison between these two carries no information. The figure behind 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. Neither is the cheaper trip on this evidence.

Malaga's beaches count for most in the same summer weeks when the coast is busiest, and its warmest sea coincides with its hottest air. Seville's warm year is unevenly spread: 36°C in midsummer is not comfortable sightseeing weather, and autumn brings 72-78mm of rain.

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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Sea temperature, °C
Seville
No coastline within reach
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Daylight, hours per day
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Malaga
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
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
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). Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Malaga is at its best from May to June, when highs sit at 25-29°C and rain drops to 4mm, and again in September, with the sea around 22°C. Midsummer stays workable at 31-32°C rather than climbing higher.

Seville reads better in April and May, at 24-28°C, when walking the centre is comfortable and the rain has eased. July and August reach 36°C, which limits daytime sightseeing, and October, though mild, is among its wetter months at 74mm.

Getting there

Flying fromSevilleMalaga
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€73-109
AGP · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€180-230
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 40 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
BilbaoBIO
1 h 30 m
€112-119
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
2 h 20 m
€126-171
SVQ · 9 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 9 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

MeasureSevilleMalaga
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 m18 m
Main airportSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinationsMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSevilleMalaga
City population689,423599,063
People per km²4,8961,517
Museums within 10 km2432
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5265
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.