VacationSelector

Berlin or Seoul?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Berlin
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Seoul
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

BerlinSeoul
Beaches & swimming. Seoul leads by 15 points.15
BerlinSeoul
Score015
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km171
Coast distance142 km28 km
Water distance28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 15 points.15
BerlinSeoul
Score7085
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1173,559
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3332
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 4 points.4
BerlinSeoul
Score7983
Museums within 10 km200203
Museums within 2 km of centre8190
Share of museums within 2 km %4144
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 4 points.4
BerlinSeoul
Score7680
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1143,291
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre7191,630
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3450
Nightclubs within 4 km13529
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 17 points.17
BerlinSeoul
Score4932
Protected land share 50 km %201
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km141 hectares126 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 3 points.3
BerlinSeoul
Score7679
Tourist attractions within 2 km5462
Park area within 2 km141 hectares126 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km58
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 25 points.25
BerlinSeoul
Score8459
Notable places within 2 km486118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 12 points.12
BerlinSeoul
Score6072
Price level global75.959.4
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Seoul leads by 1 points.1
BerlinSeoul
Score6061
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C2 °C to 30 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm18 mm to 422 mm
Dry months34
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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Seoul
2
5
11
18
24
28
29
30
26
20
12
4
Sea temperature, °C
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
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
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinSeoul
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
10 h 45 m
€646-685
ICN · 49 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
11 h 10 m
€687-728
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
10 h 0 m
€493-591
ICN · 49 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€178-321
BER · 19 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 25 m
€149-251
BER · 19 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€101-133
BER · 19 km
11 h 55 m
€680-750
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 km
1 h 45 m
€198-221
ICN · 49 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
13 h 45 m
€770-823
ICN · 49 km
Abu DhabiAUH
6 h 10 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
8 h 45 m
€591-679
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

MeasureBerlinSeoul
Official languageGermanKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Won (KRW)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation34 m38 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinSeoul
City population3,782,2029,668,465
People per km²4,24415,973
Museums within 10 km15880
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre86156
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.