VacationSelector

Cork or Seoul?

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

Your match

Cork
38
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

CorkSeoul
Beaches & swimming. Cork leads by 13 points.13
CorkSeoul
Score2815
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance3 km28 km
Water distance3 km28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 35 points.35
CorkSeoul
Score5085
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2243,559
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3532
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 60 points.60
CorkSeoul
Score2383
Museums within 10 km10203
Museums within 2 km of centre890
Share of museums within 2 km %8044
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 42 points.42
CorkSeoul
Score3880
Drinking venues within 4 km3613,291
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2921,630
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8150
Nightclubs within 4 km929
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 20 points.20
CorkSeoul
Score5232
Protected land share 50 km %1
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7495
Park area within 2 km48 hectares126 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 52 points.52
CorkSeoul
Score2779
Tourist attractions within 2 km762
Park area within 2 km48 hectares126 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Seoul leads by 37 points.37
CorkSeoul
Score2259
Notable places within 2 km14118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 15 points.15
CorkSeoul
Score5772
Price level global80.259.4
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Seoul leads by 12 points.12
CorkSeoul
Score4961
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C2 °C to 30 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 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
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Seoul
2
5
11
18
24
28
29
30
26
20
12
4
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
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
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
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. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkSeoul
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
13 h 45 m
€770-823
ICN · 49 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
11 h 10 m
€687-728
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 10 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
10 h 45 m
€646-685
ICN · 49 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
11 h 15 m
€632-735
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
11 h 55 m
€680-750
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
BudapestBUD
3 h 5 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
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

MeasureCorkSeoul
Official languageEnglish, IrishKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Won (KRW)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation0 m38 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkSeoul
City population222,3339,668,465
People per km²5,96115,973
Museums within 10 km580
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre49156
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). 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. 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.