Most European city airports answer the arrival question with a rail platform. Seville does not have one. Aena lists three ways out of the terminal on its own access pages, and they are car, bus and taxi.
A single ticket on the EA airport bus in Seville costs €6, against a fixed taxi fare of €26 into the city on weekday daytimes. With no rail option in the middle, the entire arrival decision sits between those two numbers.
How do you get from Seville airport to the centre?
On the TUSSAM EA bus at €6.00 single and €8.00 return, or by taxi on a fixed fare of €26.00 daytime and €29.00 at night, weekends and holidays. There is no rail link. The €0.57 luggage supplement does not apply on journeys from the airport into the city.
There is no rail link, and that changes the plan
Seville airport has no metro station and no commuter rail platform. Aena reduces the whole question to three headings on its access pages, car, bus and taxi, and the city’s mainline station, Santa Justa, sits in the city rather than at the terminal. The EA bus run by TUSSAM reaches it in the opposite direction, from airport to station.
The practical consequence is about timing rather than money. The €6 bus and the €26 taxi share the same road, so the arrival hour matters in a way a rail link would have made irrelevant. On a tight connection to a timed monument slot, that shared traffic is the variable to plan against.
What the bus costs and where it stops
The EA line, branded Especial Aeropuerto and run by TUSSAM, charges €6 for a single and €8 for a return, according to Aena. A monthly airport card exists at €24.60, and its break-even point sits at four return journeys: three returns cost €24 and beat it, while four cost €32 and do not.
Stops on the line include Santa Justa, San Bernardo, Prado de San Sebastián and Plaza de Armas. That list matters more than it looks, because Santa Justa is the mainline rail station, Plaza de Armas is the bus station at the far river end of the centre, and Prado de San Sebastián is the stop that leaves a visitor closest to the monument quarter.
The taxi fare is fixed, and the weekend counts as off-peak
Seville airport taxis run on a closed fare rather than a meter. It is €26 under tariff 4, which covers Monday to Friday from 7am to 9pm, and €29 under tariff 5, which covers every other weekday hour plus the whole of Saturday, Sunday and public holidays.
That last clause is the one that catches people out. A Saturday arrival at noon pays the €29 rate, not the €26 one, because the weekend runs on off-peak pricing around the clock. Landing at midday on a Sunday costs exactly what landing at three in the morning on a Tuesday costs.
The fixed fare cuts both ways and mostly in the passenger’s favour. Traffic, a longer route or a slow driver do not change the number, which removes the single most common anxiety about taking a taxi in an unfamiliar city.
Luggage does not add to it either. A supplement of €0.57 per bag over 10 kg exists in the Seville taxi tariff, capped at four bags, but Aena states that it does not apply on airport-to-city journeys, so a family of four with four suitcases pays the same €26 or €29 as a single passenger with a backpack.
When the bus stops running
The EA line runs towards Seville from 4.30am to 12.05am, and towards the airport from 5.22am to 1am. The two windows are not symmetrical, and the last departure into the city falls fifty-five minutes earlier than the last departure out to the terminal.
For a late arrival that asymmetry decides everything. After 12.05am there is no bus into the centre and the taxi is the only option, at the €29 off-peak fare. The difference between a flight landing at midnight and one landing at one in the morning is €23 for a solo traveller.
The €6.00 single and the €26 daytime taxi are the first two numbers of any Seville budget, and both feed into the breakdown of what three days in the city cost, where arrival is the line most often left out of the total.
Which one to take
For one to three passengers the bus wins clearly, and buying the €8 return at the outset widens the margin further. For four passengers on a single weekday run the taxi wins on comfort, because €2 does not pay for wrestling four suitcases onto a city bus. For anything landing after 12.05am there is no choice to make.
One local factor outweighs the fares in high summer. Arriving at midday in July or August, when the mean daily maximum reaches 36.0°C, turns any walk with luggage into the worst twenty minutes of the trip. In that window the taxi is buying shade rather than speed, and it is worth the difference.
There is a scheduling argument too. Prado de San Sebastián puts an arriving visitor within a short walk of the monument quarter, which matters when a timed ticket is involved: the Real Alcázar’s opening seasons and free-entry rules run on fixed slots that a missed connection cannot recover.
Frequently asked questions about Seville airport and the city centre
Is there a train from Seville airport to the city?
No. Aena lists three ways out of Seville airport on its own access pages, and they are car, bus and taxi. No metro line and no commuter rail service the terminal, so a rail-based arrival plan does not exist here.
How much is the bus from Seville airport?
A single on the EA airport line costs €6 and a return costs €8, as published by Aena. There is also a monthly airport card at €24.60, which is aimed at people who commute to the terminal rather than at visitors.
How much is a taxi from Seville airport to the centre?
The taxi runs on a fixed fare rather than a meter. It is €26 from Monday to Friday between 7am and 9pm, and €29 at all other weekday hours and for the whole of Saturday, Sunday and public holidays.
Do I pay extra for luggage in a Seville airport taxi?
Not on the airport-to-city run. A €0.57 charge per bag over 10 kg exists with a maximum of four bags, but Aena states that it does not apply to airport-to-city journeys, so the fixed fare is the whole fare.
How late does the Seville airport bus run?
The EA line runs towards Seville between 4.30am and 12.05am, and towards the airport between 5.22am and 1am. A flight landing after five past midnight has no bus, which leaves the taxi at its €29 off-peak fare.
The bus charges by the head and the taxi charges by the car. Every other detail follows from that.