VacationSelector

Lisbon or Seoul?

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

Your match

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

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

Seoul
63
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage 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.

LisbonSeoul
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 42 points.42
LisbonSeoul
Score5715
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km241
Coast distance2 km28 km
Water distance2 km28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 5 points.5
LisbonSeoul
Score8085
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,4963,559
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3132
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 13 points.13
LisbonSeoul
Score7083
Museums within 10 km124203
Museums within 2 km of centre5490
Share of museums within 2 km %4444
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 15 points.15
LisbonSeoul
Score6580
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2253,291
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre9561,630
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7850
Nightclubs within 4 km6529
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 24 points.24
LisbonSeoul
Score5632
Protected land share 50 km %111
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5495
Park area within 2 km77 hectares126 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 10 points.10
LisbonSeoul
Score6979
Tourist attractions within 2 km8262
Park area within 2 km77 hectares126 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 7 points.7
LisbonSeoul
Score6659
Notable places within 2 km169118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 2 points.2
LisbonSeoul
Score7472
Price level global55.959.4
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 17 points.17
LisbonSeoul
Score7861
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C2 °C to 30 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 mm18 mm to 422 mm
Dry months44
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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Seoul
2
5
11
18
24
28
29
30
26
20
12
4
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
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. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonSeoul
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
11 h 10 m
€687-728
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
12 h 25 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
11 h 55 m
€680-750
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€164-250
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
10 h 45 m
€646-685
ICN · 49 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
13 h 45 m
€770-823
ICN · 49 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 50 m
€120-145
LIS · 7 km
11 h 15 m
€632-735
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 35 m
€124-144
LIS · 7 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
Abu DhabiAUH
7 h 50 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
8 h 45 m
€591-679
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

MeasureLisbonSeoul
Official languagePortugueseKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Won (KRW)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation100 m38 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonSeoul
City population545,7969,668,465
People per km²5,45315,973
Museums within 10 km7880
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre106156
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). 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.