VacationSelector

Ghent or Seoul?

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

Your match

Ghent
50
match

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

Seoul
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

GhentSeoul
Beaches & swimming. Ghent leads by 11 points.11
GhentSeoul
Score2615
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km81
Coast distance32 km28 km
Water distance32 km28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 15 points.15
GhentSeoul
Score7085
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7643,559
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4932
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 25 points.25
GhentSeoul
Score5883
Museums within 10 km24203
Museums within 2 km of centre2090
Share of museums within 2 km %8344
Unesco sites within 50 km55
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 31 points.31
GhentSeoul
Score4980
Drinking venues within 4 km5703,291
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4461,630
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7850
Nightclubs within 4 km2629
Nature & day trips. Ghent leads by 2 points.2
GhentSeoul
Score3432
Protected land share 50 km %71
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %8795
Park area within 2 km84 hectares126 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 29 points.29
GhentSeoul
Score5079
Tourist attractions within 2 km1962
Park area within 2 km84 hectares126 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. Seoul leads by 13 points.13
GhentSeoul
Score4659
Notable places within 2 km55118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 12 points.12
GhentSeoul
Score6072
Price level global76.259.4
Daily budget€180—
Year-round weather. Seoul leads by 5 points.5
GhentSeoul
Score5661
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C2 °C to 30 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm18 mm to 422 mm
Dry months14
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Seoul
2
5
11
18
24
28
29
30
26
20
12
4
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
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
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
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. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentSeoul
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
2 h 5 m
€140-229
ICN · 49 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 56 km
11 h 55 m
€680-750
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
12 h 25 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
11 h 15 m
€632-735
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 56 km
10 h 0 m
€493-591
ICN · 49 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
10 h 45 m
€646-685
ICN · 49 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
13 h 45 m
€770-823
ICN · 49 km
Hong KongHKG
11 h 40 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
3 h 5 m
€172-189
ICN · 49 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
8 h 35 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

MeasureGhentSeoul
Official languageFrench, German, DutchKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Won (KRW)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation12 m38 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentSeoul
City population272,6579,668,465
People per km²1,72815,973
Museums within 10 km3080
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km55
Distinct cuisines in the centre83156
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.