VacationSelector

Frankfurt or Seattle?

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

Your match

Frankfurt
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Seattle
52
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.

FrankfurtSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
FrankfurtSeattle
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4100
Coast distance327 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 5 points.5
FrankfurtSeattle
Score7075
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1601,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3135
Museums & heritage. Frankfurt leads by 33 points.33
FrankfurtSeattle
Score6936
Museums within 10 km7928
Museums within 2 km of centre4317
Share of museums within 2 km %5461
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Frankfurt leads by 2 points.2
FrankfurtSeattle
Score5957
Drinking venues within 4 km931873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre691696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7480
Nightclubs within 4 km5634
Nature & day trips. Frankfurt leads by 24 points.24
FrankfurtSeattle
Score6440
Protected land share 50 km %289
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km124 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Frankfurt leads by 22 points.22
FrankfurtSeattle
Score6846
Tourist attractions within 2 km4517
Park area within 2 km124 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Frankfurt leads by 9 points.9
FrankfurtSeattle
Score6152
Notable places within 2 km12976
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Frankfurt leads by 17 points.17
FrankfurtSeattle
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Frankfurt leads by 1 points.1
FrankfurtSeattle
Score6261
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 26.2 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 68 mm15 mm to 160 mm
Dry months13
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
Frankfurt
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Frankfurt
No coastline within reach
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Frankfurt
52
44
41
38
62
60
68
60
50
54
53
63
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Frankfurt
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Frankfurt
2
3
5
7
7
8
8
7
6
4
2
1
Seattle
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Frankfurt: 1991-2020 normals, Frankfurt Westend (2 km from centre). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFrankfurtSeattle
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 13 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 13 km
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
2 h 30 m
€111-203
SEA · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
8 h 50 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
3 h 55 m
€257-317
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
8 h 20 m
€656-803
2 stops
FRA · 13 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 25 m
€628-763
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
€490-632
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DenverDEN, APA
10 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 13 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 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 2026-09 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

MeasureFrankfurtSeattle
Official languageGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation101 m40 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)13 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFrankfurtSeattle
City population775,790737,015
People per km²3,1241,996
Museums within 10 km5327
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre7178
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.