Best time to visit Seville, month by month: weather, daylight, hotel occupancy, holidays, Semana Santa, the Feria and the summer heat

💡 The Short Version: There is no single best month, so choose by what you want. March to May has highs of 21.9°C to 27.2°C, orange blossom, Semana Santa (21 to 28 March 2027) and the Feria de Abril (12 to 18 April 2027). October and November have highs of 26.0°C and 20.2°C and more rain. July and August average 36.0°C and 35.5°C, and summer 2026 was the hottest on record in Spain. By hotel occupancy in 2025, September was the busiest month (88.0%) and July the quietest (64.1%). December is the wettest month (99 mm). Or book a walk: the Small-Group City Highlights Walking Tourad is from €22.50 for 2 hours.

Seville month by month

Highs and lows are the average daily maximum and minimum in °C, and rain is the monthly total in mm with the number of days with 1 mm or more. The weather is AEMET’s climate normals for the Sevilla Aeropuerto station for 1981 to 2010, which sits about 10 km north-east of the Cathedral (AEMET). Daylight is the length of the day on the 15th in hours, calculated for Seville’s coordinates. Occupancy is the share of hotel rooms full in each month of 2025 in the municipality of Seville (INE); it counts hotels only, not holiday flats.

The Giralda from the Patio de los Naranjos, the Cathedral’s orange-tree courtyard. Photo: José Luiz, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The weather in numbers

• Heat. July and August are the only months with an average high above 35°C. The averages are for 1981 to 2010, and summer 2026 ran hotter.
• The summer of 2026. AEMET says summer 2026 averaged 24.5°C in Spain, 2.4°C above the 1991 to 2020 mean and the warmest since its series began in 1961, with 61 days of heat-wave conditions on the Peninsula and the Balearics. The waves ran from 20 to 27 June, 2 to 24 July (the most intense) and 28 July to 20 August, and a fifth from 2 to 7 September (AEMET).
• Rain. The twelve months add up to 539 mm on 50.5 days. December, November and October are the wettest; June to August together have 17 mm. March has 4.3 rainy days against 6.1 in April.
• Sun. 2,917 hours a year, from 154 in December to 354 in July.
• Clocks. Spain’s mainland changes on the last Sunday of October (25 October 2026) and of March (28 March 2027, Easter Sunday). It is on UTC+1 in winter and UTC+2 in summer.

What the hotel numbers show

The survey is INE’s hotel occupancy survey for the municipality of Seville. In 2025 the fullest months were September (88.0% of rooms), April (84.4%), March (82.9%), October (81.0%), February (80.9%) and August (80.7%). The emptiest were July (64.1%), June (64.4%), December (65.6%) and November (68.3%). Holy Week 2025 fell in April; in 2027 it falls in March. In the first seven months of 2026 occupancy was 74.2% in January, 84.2% in February, 85.8% in March and April, 75.7% in May, 65.6% in June and 68.4% in July. The average stay is about two nights. The city’s hotels held 13,097 rooms in July 2026. Prices follow the same curve, and the areas and hotels are in where to stay in Seville.

Dates that shape a visit

• Semana Santa. Palm Sunday 21 March to Easter Sunday 28 March 2027, with the Madrugá on the night of 25 to 26 March: see Semana Santa in Seville 2027.
• The Feria de Abril. Midnight between 12 and 13 April to Sunday 18 April 2027: see the Feria de Abril 2027.
• Public holidays in 2027. 1 January, 6 January, Monday 1 March (Andalusia Day, moved from Sunday 28 February), 25 March (Holy Thursday), 26 March (Good Friday), Saturday 1 May, Monday 16 August (moved from Sunday 15 August), 12 October, 1 November, 6 December, 8 December and 25 December, set by the Junta de Andalucía’s decree 84/2026. Seville adds two local holidays: Wednesday 14 April (Feria Wednesday) and Thursday 27 May (Corpus Christi).
• Corpus Christi. Thursday 27 May 2027.
• Summer evenings. The Real Alcázar held 63 evening concerts in its gardens between 25 June and 19 September 2026, at €7: see Real Alcázar tickets. The Triana market’s bars stay open to 01:00 from 15 April to 15 September.
• Velá de Santa Ana. The Triana street festival is in July, from 21 to 26 July in 2026.
• Flamenco. The Bienal de Flamenco is held every two years, with the 2026 edition from 9 September to 3 October; the next is in 2028: see flamenco shows in Seville.
• The orange trees. Seville’s streets have bitter oranges, which flower in March and April. The council’s 2025 to 2026 campaign planned to pick about 7 million kg from more than 52,000 trees by the end of February.
• The eclipse. The total solar eclipse of 2 August 2027 crosses Cádiz and Málaga provinces; the path of totality misses Seville.

Which month for what

• Walking weather. March to May and October to November: highs of 20°C to 27°C.
• Festivals. Semana Santa (21 to 28 March 2027) and the Feria (12 to 18 April 2027), when rooms in the centre are the hardest to get.
• Fewer visitors. June and July, and December and November, when 64% to 68% of rooms were full in 2025, though June and July are hot and December is the wettest month.
• The heat. July and August: put the indoor sights in the middle of the day, as in Seville in one or two days. The Real Alcázar’s gardens can close for weather alerts, and some restaurants close for a month in summer.
• Christmas. The lights run from the end of November to 6 January: see Christmas in Seville.
• Oranges. The blossom is out in March and April.

The canal and the arcaded wing of the Plaza de España in evening light. Photo: Ruperez74, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Plan the rest

Where to stay in Seville compares the areas and hotels near Seville Cathedral lists the closest. Once you have your dates, Seville in one or two days fits the sights round the closed days. Where to eat in Seville and Seville tapas cover the meals, Seville food tours compares the tastings, and what to book before you go to Seville has the hours for every sight. For the way in, see Seville airport to the city and Seville public transport.