VacationSelector

Atlanta or Seoul?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Atlanta
40
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Seoul
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

AtlantaSeoul
Beaches & swimming. Seoul leads by 15 points.15
AtlantaSeoul
Score015
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance373 km28 km
Water distance28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 26 points.26
AtlantaSeoul
Score5985
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7393,559
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2332
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 48 points.48
AtlantaSeoul
Score3583
Museums within 10 km41203
Museums within 2 km of centre1690
Share of museums within 2 km %3944
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 31 points.31
AtlantaSeoul
Score4980
Drinking venues within 4 km5313,291
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2841,630
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5350
Nightclubs within 4 km4629
Nature & day trips. Seoul leads by 1 points.1
AtlantaSeoul
Score3132
Protected land share 50 km %11
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km113 hectares126 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 47 points.47
AtlantaSeoul
Score3279
Tourist attractions within 2 km262
Park area within 2 km113 hectares126 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. Seoul leads by 19 points.19
AtlantaSeoul
Score4059
Notable places within 2 km39118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 29 points.29
AtlantaSeoul
Score4372
Price level global10059.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Atlanta leads by 6 points.6
AtlantaSeoul
Score6761
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C2 °C to 30 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm18 mm to 422 mm
Dry months04
0255075100

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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Daytime high, °C
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Seoul
2
5
11
18
24
28
29
30
26
20
12
4
Sea temperature, °C
Atlanta
No coastline within reach
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
Seoul
5
5
6
7
7
6
4
5
6
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaSeoul
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
13 h 45 m
€770-823
ICN · 49 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 40 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 5 m
€140-229
ICN · 49 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 40 m
€84-125
ATL · 14 km
13 h 50 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 50 m
€161-221
ATL · 14 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
4 h 20 m
€165-240
1 stop
ATL · 14 km
12 h 0 m
€637-697
ICN · 49 km
San FranciscoSFO
4 h 40 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
11 h 20 m
€560-734
ICN · 49 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 5 m
€69-120
ATL · 14 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
Abu DhabiAUH
15 h 5 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
8 h 45 m
€591-679
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
3 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
14 h 55 m
€1,052-1072
2 stops
ICN · 49 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 2026-09 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

MeasureAtlantaSeoul
Official languageKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Won (KRW)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation225 m38 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaSeoul
City population498,7159,668,465
People per km²1,43315,973
Museums within 10 km2780
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre56156
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.