VacationSelector

Ljubljana or Seoul?

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

Your match

Ljubljana
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Seoul
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife 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.

LjubljanaSeoul
Beaches & swimming. Seoul leads by 15 points.15
LjubljanaSeoul
Score015
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km101
Coast distance72 km28 km
Water distance28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 30 points.30
LjubljanaSeoul
Score5585
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2923,559
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4032
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 28 points.28
LjubljanaSeoul
Score5583
Museums within 10 km26203
Museums within 2 km of centre2390
Share of museums within 2 km %8844
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 35 points.35
LjubljanaSeoul
Score4580
Drinking venues within 4 km4583,291
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2841,630
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6250
Nightclubs within 4 km2429
Nature & day trips. Ljubljana leads by 8 points.8
LjubljanaSeoul
Score4032
Protected land share 50 km %131
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km75 hectares126 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 41 points.41
LjubljanaSeoul
Score3879
Tourist attractions within 2 km1262
Park area within 2 km75 hectares126 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Seoul leads by 1 points.1
LjubljanaSeoul
Score5859
Notable places within 2 km109118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ljubljana and Seoul are level on 72.
LjubljanaSeoul
Score7272
Price level global59.659.4
Daily budget€131
Year-round weather. Seoul leads by 5 points.5
LjubljanaSeoul
Score5661
Monthly daytime high4.1 °C to 27.9 °C2 °C to 30 °C
Monthly rainfall67 mm to 159 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
Ljubljana
4
7
12
17
22
26
28
28
22
16
10
4
Seoul
2
5
11
18
24
28
29
30
26
20
12
4
Sea temperature, °C
Ljubljana
No coastline within reach
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Daylight, hours per day
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Ljubljana
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
8
6
4
2
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. Ljubljana: 1991-2020 normals, Ljubljana / Bezigrad (1.9 km from centre). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLjubljanaSeoul
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
11 h 15 m
€632-735
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 20 km
10 h 0 m
€493-591
ICN · 49 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
10 h 45 m
€646-685
ICN · 49 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
11 h 10 m
€687-728
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
DohaDOH
5 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
BishkekBSZ
6 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
13 h 10 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

MeasureLjubljanaSeoul
Official languageSloveneKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Won (KRW)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation309 m38 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureLjubljanaSeoul
City population284,2939,668,465
People per km²1,73615,973
Museums within 10 km1480
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre63156
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.