VacationSelector

Bath or Seoul?

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

Your match

Bath
40
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Seoul
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

BathSeoul
Beaches & swimming. Seoul leads by 7 points.7
BathSeoul
Score815
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance29 km28 km
Water distance29 km28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 39 points.39
BathSeoul
Score4685
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2453,559
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2632
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 36 points.36
BathSeoul
Score4783
Museums within 10 km20203
Museums within 2 km of centre1490
Share of museums within 2 km %7044
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 44 points.44
BathSeoul
Score3680
Drinking venues within 4 km3203,291
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2401,630
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7550
Nightclubs within 4 km1129
Nature & day trips. Bath leads by 12 points.12
BathSeoul
Score4432
Protected land share 50 km %281
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %9295
Park area within 2 km45 hectares126 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 39 points.39
BathSeoul
Score4079
Tourist attractions within 2 km1462
Park area within 2 km45 hectares126 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. Seoul leads by 27 points.27
BathSeoul
Score3259
Notable places within 2 km25118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 18 points.18
BathSeoul
Score5472
Price level global84.959.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Seoul leads by 6 points.6
BathSeoul
Score5561
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C2 °C to 30 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 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
Bath
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Seoul
2
5
11
18
24
28
29
30
26
20
12
4
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathSeoul
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
2 h 5 m
€140-229
ICN · 49 km
Hong KongHKG
12 h 0 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
3 h 5 m
€172-189
ICN · 49 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 30 m
€665-831
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
1 h 40 m
€197-199
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
5 h 0 m
€176-202
ICN · 49 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
11 h 55 m
€680-750
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
HanoiHAN
11 h 30 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
3 h 50 m
€152-181
ICN · 49 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 15 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
1 h 45 m
€198-221
ICN · 49 km
San FranciscoSFO
10 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
11 h 20 m
€560-734
ICN · 49 km
Abu DhabiAUH
7 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
8 h 45 m
€591-679
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
11 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 132 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBathSeoul
Official languageEnglishKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Won (KRW)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112 or 999Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation132 m38 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathSeoul
City population94,0929,668,465
People per km²3,24515,973
Museums within 10 km1780
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre38156
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone2 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.