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Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España
The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach

Photos: Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped; St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License.

Seville or St. Pete Beach?

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 Seville for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

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

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’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. Seville 18, St. Pete Beach 87: St. Pete Beach leads by 69 points.
Food & drink. Seville 73, St. Pete Beach 40: Seville leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Seville 82, St. Pete Beach 18: Seville leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Seville 62, St. Pete Beach 28: Seville leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Seville 52, St. Pete Beach 57: St. Pete Beach leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Seville 80, St. Pete Beach 58: Seville leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Seville 55, St. Pete Beach 72: St. Pete Beach leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Seville 72, St. Pete Beach 30: Seville leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Seville 55, St. Pete Beach 20: Seville leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Seville 58, St. Pete Beach 32: Seville leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Seville 68, St. Pete Beach 20: Seville leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Seville 40, St. Pete Beach 42: St. Pete Beach leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Seville and St. Pete Beach.

Your match

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

Seville
Best match
60match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

St. Pete Beach
42match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

St. Pete Beach 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.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre). St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSevilleSt. Pete Beach
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation18 m2 m
Main airportSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSevilleSt. Pete Beach
City population689,4238,879
People per km²4,896173
Museums within 10 km242
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.