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Clearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier, Clearwater
ClearwaterClearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier
Hanok houses in Bukchon, Seoul
SeoulHanok houses in Bukchon

Photos: Clearwater by ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Seoul by 거열 박, Pexels License.

Clearwater or Seoul?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Clearwater for

  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Clearwater’s own page.

Choose Seoul for

  • getting around
  • shopping
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Seoul’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Clearwater 90, Seoul 18: Clearwater leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Clearwater 38, Seoul 84: Seoul leads by 46 points.
Culture & sights. Clearwater 18, Seoul 75: Seoul leads by 57 points.
Nightlife. Clearwater 34, Seoul 84: Seoul leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Clearwater 55, Seoul 75: Seoul leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Clearwater 58, Seoul 77: Seoul leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Clearwater 78, Seoul 80: Seoul leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Clearwater 28, Seoul 87: Seoul leads by 59 points.
Shopping & style. Clearwater 27, Seoul 85: Seoul leads by 58 points.
Affordability. Clearwater 35, Seoul 50: Seoul leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Clearwater 36, Seoul 63: Seoul leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Clearwater 40, Seoul 75: Seoul leads by 35 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Clearwater and Seoul.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Clearwater
45match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Seoul
Best match
71match

Wins on getting around and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Clearwater in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
188 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Seoul in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
422 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Clearwater has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Clearwater's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Clearwater: 2006-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg / High Point (12.7 km from centre). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureClearwaterSeoul
Official language-Korean, 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
Elevation9 m38 m
Main airportSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre162 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureClearwaterSeoul
City population117,2929,668,465
People per km²1,15415,973
Museums within 10 km481
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months2 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.