VacationSelector
Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Seville or Valparaiso?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • shopping

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Valparaiso’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, Valparaiso 36: Valparaiso leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Seville 73, Valparaiso 50: Seville leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Seville 82, Valparaiso 62: Seville leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Seville 62, Valparaiso 56: Seville leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Seville 52, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Seville 80, Valparaiso 63: Seville leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Seville 55, Valparaiso 33: Seville leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Seville 72, Valparaiso 44: Seville leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Seville 55, Valparaiso 30: Seville leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Seville 58, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Seville 68, Valparaiso 38: Seville leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Seville 40, Valparaiso 18: Seville leads by 22 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Seville and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Seville
Best match
60match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around with your weighting.

Valparaiso
46match

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

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

0255075100125JFMAMJJASOND
SevilleValparaiso

Where the figures come from

Valparaiso 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). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSevilleValparaiso
Official languageSpanishSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation18 m21 m
Main airportSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSevilleValparaiso
City population689,423296,655
People per km²4,8966,180
Museums within 10 km2417
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Seville or Valparaiso somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.