VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale or Seoul?

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

Your match

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Seoul
✓ Best match
63
match

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

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

Fort LauderdaleSeoul
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 69 points.69
Fort LauderdaleSeoul
Score8415
Swim season months122
Beaches 10 km71
Coast distance0 km28 km
Water distance0 km28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 40 points.40
Fort LauderdaleSeoul
Score4585
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3713,559
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1832
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 63 points.63
Fort LauderdaleSeoul
Score2083
Museums within 10 km14203
Museums within 2 km of centre690
Share of museums within 2 km %4344
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 46 points.46
Fort LauderdaleSeoul
Score3480
Drinking venues within 4 km2593,291
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1441,630
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5650
Nightclubs within 4 km1829
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 49 points.49
Fort LauderdaleSeoul
Score8132
Protected land share 50 km %201
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5195
Park area within 2 km45 hectares126 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 60 points.60
Fort LauderdaleSeoul
Score1979
Tourist attractions within 2 km262
Park area within 2 km45 hectares126 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Seoul leads by 59 points.59
Fort LauderdaleSeoul
Score059
Notable places within 2 km2118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 29 points.29
Fort LauderdaleSeoul
Score4372
Price level global10059.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 15 points.15
Fort LauderdaleSeoul
Score7661
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C2 °C to 30 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Seoul
2
5
11
18
24
28
29
30
26
20
12
4
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
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. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleSeoul
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
13 h 45 m
€770-823
ICN · 49 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 25 m
€164-177
FLL · 7 km
13 h 50 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
San FranciscoSFO
5 h 35 m
€349-373
2 stops
FLL · 7 km
11 h 20 m
€560-734
ICN · 49 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
5 h 50 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
5 h 5 m
€218-274
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
12 h 0 m
€637-697
ICN · 49 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
12 h 25 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
3 h 5 m
€278-290
MIA · 41 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

MeasureFort LauderdaleSeoul
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
Elevation11 m38 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleSeoul
City population182,7609,668,465
People per km²1,82915,973
Museums within 10 km680
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre25156
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months2 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Fort Lauderdale or Seoul somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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.