VacationSelector

Gdansk or Seoul?

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

Your match

Gdansk
56
match

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

Seoul
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

GdanskSeoul
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 40 points.40
GdanskSeoul
Score5515
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km201
Coast distance1 km28 km
Water distance1 km28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 33 points.33
GdanskSeoul
Score5285
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3483,559
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2832
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 26 points.26
GdanskSeoul
Score5783
Museums within 10 km43203
Museums within 2 km of centre2890
Share of museums within 2 km %6544
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 44 points.44
GdanskSeoul
Score3680
Drinking venues within 4 km2693,291
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2031,630
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7550
Nightclubs within 4 km3029
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 13 points.13
GdanskSeoul
Score4532
Protected land share 50 km %121
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %7095
Park area within 2 km61 hectares126 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 4 points.4
GdanskSeoul
Score7579
Tourist attractions within 2 km10862
Park area within 2 km61 hectares126 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km38
Sights concentration. Seoul leads by 7 points.7
GdanskSeoul
Score5259
Notable places within 2 km76118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Gdansk leads by 7 points.7
GdanskSeoul
Score7972
Price level global4959.4
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Seoul leads by 9 points.9
GdanskSeoul
Score5261
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C2 °C to 30 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 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
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Seoul
2
5
11
18
24
28
29
30
26
20
12
4
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
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. Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskSeoul
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
10 h 45 m
€646-685
ICN · 49 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 55 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
11 h 55 m
€680-750
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
11 h 10 m
€687-728
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 25 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
11 h 15 m
€632-735
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

MeasureGdanskSeoul
Official languagePolishKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Won (KRW)
SocketsCE50 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation11 m38 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskSeoul
City population487,8349,668,465
People per km²71415,973
Museums within 10 km3780
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre48156
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). 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.