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Korenlei reflected in the Leie, Ghent
GhentKorenlei reflected in the Leie
Hanok houses in Bukchon, Seoul
SeoulHanok houses in Bukchon

Photos: Ghent by ykeiko, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Seoul by 거열 박, Pexels License.

Ghent or Seoul?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Ghent for

  • day trips
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Ghent’s own page.

Choose Seoul for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Seoul’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Ghent 25, Seoul 18: Ghent leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Ghent 62, Seoul 84: Seoul leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Ghent 72, Seoul 75: Seoul leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Ghent 55, Seoul 84: Seoul leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ghent 35, Seoul 75: Seoul leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Ghent 88, Seoul 77: Ghent leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Ghent 50, Seoul 80: Seoul leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Ghent 78, Seoul 87: Seoul leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Ghent 50, Seoul 85: Seoul leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Ghent 38, Seoul 50: Seoul leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ghent 60, Seoul 63: Seoul leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ghent 33, Seoul 75: Seoul leads by 42 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ghent and Seoul.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Ghent
54match

Wins on day trips and beaches with your weighting.

Seoul
Best match
71match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Ghent in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
77 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Seoul in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
422 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Ghent has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Ghent's sunshine is measured 45 km from the centre, at Vlissingen.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ghent: 2009-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Melle / Kalverhaag (10.1 km from centre). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

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 centre162 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 km3081
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km55
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone2 months

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Sources

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. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.