Following Seville's Holy Week from afar: maps, radio and what is not broadcast
Following something as it happens means different things to different people. This page covers what exists for following Seville's Holy Week without being in the street, and what does not, rather than promising minute-by-minute coverage that no source backs up.
There is no single official broadcast covering the whole of Seville's Holy Week minute by minute. What exists is a set of partial tools: a private map, a City Council app and one-off radio programmes. This page brings together what you can follow from a distance, from home or from your hotel, and what no source documents.
Holy Week 2026 ran from 29 March to 5 April 2026, with the brotherhoods passing along the Carrera Oficial (the official route through the centre) mostly between 16:30 and 22:30. The full calendar is in the main guide.
Which online map can you use to follow Seville's Holy Week?
The one cited most often is lasemanasantadesevilla.com, with a live map, updated times and routes, and a page for each brotherhood. It is a private site, not an institutional one, and presents itself as a single guide to the whole week.
The City Council, for its part, offers the Holy Week GPS tracker and the crowd-density traffic light, available from Viernes de Dolores (the Friday before Palm Sunday). These are official municipal tools, but none of the sources consulted details their exact coverage (every brotherhood or only some) or how often they are updated.
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Can you follow Seville's Holy Week on radio or television?
On radio, yes, at least for particular events: COPE Sevilla and Cadena SER broadcast the 2026 pregón (the opening proclamation) as it happened, with special programmes on 22 March. None of the sources consulted lists a television or streaming schedule covering every procession day by day.
The time and place of the pregón, which is separate from the processions, are in the guide to the 2026 Holy Week pregón in Seville.
Following the week on a screen is never a substitute for seeing it in the street. Guided tours through the brotherhoods' neighbourhoods combine both views and can be compared with the rest of Seville's activities in a single catalogue.
See guided tours and activities in Seville →Affiliate link: booking through it helps keep this guide going, and costs you nothing extra.What is impossible to follow from a distance, however hard you look?
No audience figures are published for any broadcast of Seville's Holy Week, and there is no single channel pulling together video of every brotherhood at once. Nor is there a public figure for the number of people in the centre hour by hour: the only flow figures are for the reinforced public transport in 2025, 2,511,643 passengers, 22.9 % more than in 2024 and 17.8 % more than in 2023, which is not the same as spectators in the street.
At regional level, the Junta de Andalucía does publish an overall figure: at Holy Week 2024, 478 million euros in tourism revenue, 18% more than in 2023, and in the first five months of 2024, around 19 million overnight stays, 9% more than in the same period of 2023. That covers all of Andalusia, not just the city of Seville.
That is why this guide does not promise minute-by-minute coverage of Holy Week 2026: it points instead to the real tools that exist and to the dated calendar. Passing times for specific brotherhoods are in the guide to the floats.
How do you know whether a street is blocked while a procession goes by?
The City Council's crowd-density traffic light points in that direction, but none of the sources consulted explains how often it is updated or exactly which streets it covers. In practice, news of street closures tends to circulate first on the brotherhoods' own social media and in the local press, rather than through a central channel.
To plan with some margin instead of relying only on what is happening at the moment, the guide to the 2026 Holy Week routes sets out the planned routes day by day.
Following the week on your phone is no substitute for being near the route. Staying within walking distance of the Carrera Oficial makes you less dependent on any map or app.
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- Audience figures for any broadcast of Seville's Holy Week.
- A single official app with live video coverage of every brotherhood.
- How often the city's GPS tracker and traffic light are updated.
- A central alert channel for street closures as they happen.
The full calendar of the week is in the main guide and the day-by-day programme in the 2026 Holy Week programme.
Outside Holy Week, keeping up with Seville from afar is far simpler, and the centre comes at a different price. A three-star hotel costs between €90 and €150 a night outside the peaks, according to 2026 guides.
Compare places to stay in Seville →Affiliate link: booking through it helps keep this guide going, and costs you nothing extra.Sources
- lasemanasantadesevilla.com: live map and brotherhood pages, updated 31 May 2026.
- Sevilla.org: official Holy Week 2026 page, GPS tracker and crowd-density traffic light.
- COPE Sevilla and Cadena SER: special programmes broadcasting the pregón, 22 March 2026.
- El País: Seville Holy Week programme, times and routes, 27 March 2026.
- Europa Press, via Seville City Council: passengers on reinforced public transport, 21 April 2025.
- Junta de Andalucía, Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport, via Europa Press: regional tourism impact, 2 April 2024.
The calendar and the figures carry their year. What has not been published is flagged as such rather than promised.
Frequently asked questions
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Rocío Delgado
Rocío grew up in the San Lorenzo neighbourhood and follows Holy Week from the madrugá, not from the stands. She knows the corners where you can watch a paso go by without waiting three hours, and the streets that close without warning. She never recommends a spot she has not stood in herself.
