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Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España
Playa Tamarindo, Tamarindo
TamarindoPlaya Tamarindo

Photos: Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Tamarindo by Jarle Naustvik, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Seville or Tamarindo?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Tamarindo for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Tamarindo’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, Tamarindo 85: Tamarindo leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Seville 73, Tamarindo 38: Seville leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Seville 82, Tamarindo 5: Seville leads by 77 points.
Nightlife. Seville 62, Tamarindo 45: Seville leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Seville 52, Tamarindo 76: Tamarindo leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Seville 80, Tamarindo 28: Seville leads by 52 points.
Good for families. Seville and Tamarindo are level on 55.
Getting around. Seville 72, Tamarindo 32: Seville leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Seville 55, Tamarindo 18: Seville leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Seville 58, Tamarindo 36: Seville leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Seville 68, Tamarindo 10: Seville leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Seville 40, Tamarindo 45: Tamarindo leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Seville and Tamarindo.

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.

Tamarindo
39match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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

Tamarindo in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
129 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Tamarindo's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Liberia.

Tamarindo 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre). Tamarindo: 1991-2020 normals, Liberia (53.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSevilleTamarindo
Official languageSpanishSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Costa Rican Colon (CRC)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation18 m27 m
Main airportSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinationsDaniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR)43 km from centre30 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSevilleTamarindo
City population689,4237,132
People per km²4,89657
Museums within 10 km240
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.