VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Seattle?

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

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

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

Seattle
52
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

Hong KongSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 27 points.27
Hong KongSeattle
Score8760
Swim season months80
Beaches 10 km65100
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 13 points.13
Hong KongSeattle
Score8875
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,3251,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3235
Museums & heritage. Hong Kong and Seattle are level on 36.
Hong KongSeattle
Score3636
Museums within 10 km5028
Museums within 2 km of centre1717
Share of museums within 2 km %3461
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 14 points.14
Hong KongSeattle
Score7157
Drinking venues within 4 km1,948873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5980
Nightclubs within 4 km3734
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 24 points.24
Hong KongSeattle
Score6440
Protected land share 50 km %89
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %2980
Park area within 2 km52 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 12 points.12
Hong KongSeattle
Score5846
Tourist attractions within 2 km2717
Park area within 2 km52 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 17 points.17
Hong KongSeattle
Score6952
Notable places within 2 km20476
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hong Kong leads by 20 points.20
Hong KongSeattle
Score6343
Price level global72100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 13 points.13
Hong KongSeattle
Score7461
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm15 mm to 160 mm
Dry months43
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
Seattle
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongSeattle
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 5 m
€168-188
HKG · 25 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 5 m
€279-371
HKG · 25 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
14 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 30 m
€111-203
SEA · 18 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€147-156
HKG · 25 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
3 h 0 m
€127-156
HKG · 25 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
San FranciscoSFO
13 h 45 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
12 h 45 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
17 h 15 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
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

MeasureHong KongSeattle
Official languageStandard Chinese
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number999911
Elevation7 m40 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongSeattle
City population7,413,070737,015
People per km²1,996
Museums within 10 km3927
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre7678
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 monthsNone

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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). 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.