VacationSelector

Glasgow or Seoul?

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

Your match

Glasgow
48
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?

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Scoreboard

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

GlasgowSeoul
Beaches & swimming. Glasgow leads by 21 points.21
GlasgowSeoul
Score3615
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km31
Coast distance3 km28 km
Water distance3 km28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 22 points.22
GlasgowSeoul
Score6385
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7403,559
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2932
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 38 points.38
GlasgowSeoul
Score4583
Museums within 10 km32203
Museums within 2 km of centre1390
Share of museums within 2 km %4144
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 17 points.17
GlasgowSeoul
Score6380
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0783,291
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6541,630
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6150
Nightclubs within 4 km7329
Nature & day trips. Glasgow leads by 6 points.6
GlasgowSeoul
Score3832
Protected land share 50 km %161
Landscape blanket share 50 km %120
Land share of disc %9195
Park area within 2 km56 hectares126 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 38 points.38
GlasgowSeoul
Score4179
Tourist attractions within 2 km1362
Park area within 2 km56 hectares126 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. Seoul leads by 6 points.6
GlasgowSeoul
Score5359
Notable places within 2 km80118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 18 points.18
GlasgowSeoul
Score5472
Price level global84.959.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Seoul leads by 18 points.18
GlasgowSeoul
Score4361
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C2 °C to 30 °C
Monthly rainfall102 mm to 207 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.

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Daytime high, °C
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Seoul
2
5
11
18
24
28
29
30
26
20
12
4
Sea temperature, °C
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Daylight, hours per day
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
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. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGlasgowSeoul
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
11 h 55 m
€680-750
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
11 h 15 m
€632-735
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
PraguePRG
2 h 20 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
10 h 45 m
€646-685
ICN · 49 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
11 h 10 m
€687-728
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 0 m
€201-242
1 stop
EDI · 56 km
10 h 0 m
€493-591
ICN · 49 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
13 h 45 m
€770-823
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

MeasureGlasgowSeoul
Official languageEnglishKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Won (KRW)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112 or 999Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation21 m38 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowSeoul
City population626,4109,668,465
People per km²19015,973
Museums within 10 km2980
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre54156
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). 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.