VacationSelector

Seville or Valencia?

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 good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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 Seville if you are travelling with children and want attractions and theme parks close at hand, and if you can plan around summer highs of 36°C.

Choose Valencia if you want the sea within reach: 12 beaches nearby, a swimmable summer, a wider range of places to eat and more nightclubs.

Scoreboard

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

SevilleValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 67 points.67
SevilleValencia
Score067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km212
Coast distance65 km3 km
Water distance—3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 12 points.12
SevilleValencia
Score6678
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3701,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2233
Museums & heritage. Seville leads by 1 points.1
SevilleValencia
Score5655
Museums within 10 km5059
Museums within 2 km of centre4026
Share of museums within 2 km %8044
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 8 points.8
SevilleValencia
Score6270
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0891,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre679957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6263
Nightclubs within 4 km57108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 16 points.16
SevilleValencia
Score3753
Protected land share 50 km %810
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10064
Park area within 2 km82 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Seville leads by 23 points.23
SevilleValencia
Score6542
Tourist attractions within 2 km4712
Park area within 2 km82 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Seville leads by 3 points.3
SevilleValencia
Score5552
Notable places within 2 km9278
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seville and Valencia are level on 71.
SevilleValencia
Score7171
Price level global60.860.8
Daily budget€122€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 9 points.9
SevilleValencia
Score7584
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 36.2 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 78 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months58
0255075100

Where they differ

Seville is the stronger city for families: about three times as many tourist attractions near the centre, and 2 theme parks within reach where Valencia has none. Its notable places also sit more tightly within walking distance.

Valencia is the one for water and open space: 12 beaches nearby against Seville's 2, and five months with the sea at 21°C or more. Protected land runs to 10% around Valencia against 8% around Seville, with more park space near the centre.

Where they are alike

Heritage is where the two are most alike. Both hold a comparable stock of museums, each with UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach, and in both the collections are close enough to the centre to be worked through on foot.

The same holds for layout and nights out. Notable places cluster within walking distance of the centre in both, and in both the bars and nightclubs sit close to that same core.

Which traveller are you?

Travelling with children: Seville, with about three times as many tourist attractions near the centre and 2 theme parks within reach. Aim for April or May rather than July, when highs reach 36°C.

Wanting to swim: Valencia, with 12 beaches nearby and the sea at 26°C in August. The wider protected land around the city also gives more scope for days out.

Eating and going out: Valencia again, with a wider range of kitchens and about twice as many nightclubs, most of them near the centre, though Seville keeps its own bars in a tighter walkable core.

What the numbers don't tell you

The value comparison between these two cities carries no information: it reflects a national price level rather than anything measured in Seville or Valencia. The €122 daily budget beside it is one national estimate, so it says nothing about which city costs less on the ground.

Warmth and comfort are not the same thing. Seville's weather strength rests partly on July and August highs of 36°C, which is hard going with children despite the attractions. Valencia's beach appeal depends on a sea above 21°C for five months, and its warm September carries 70mm 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
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Seville
No coastline within reach
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Valencia
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
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Seville peaks in spring. April and May bring highs of 24-28°C with 33-51mm of rain, before July and August climb to 36°C with almost no rain at all. October is still 26°C but takes 74mm, and December 78mm.

Valencia holds up longer through summer. June to August stay at 28-31°C with the sea at 22-26°C and July close to dry at 7mm. September remains warm but takes 70mm of rain.

Getting there

Flying fromSevilleValencia
PalmaPMI
1 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 0 m
€32-53
VLC · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€62-93
ALC · 133 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€180-230
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
2 h 20 m
€126-171
SVQ · 9 km
3 h 0 m
€100-186
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
MarrakechRAK
1 h 30 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
2 h 0 m
€72-115
VLC · 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 2026-08 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

MeasureSevilleValencia
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 m15 m
Main airportSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSevilleValencia
City population689,423840,792
People per km²4,8966,242
Museums within 10 km2446
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre5292
Swim season, months above 21 °C–5 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.