VacationSelector

Miami or Seoul?

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

Your match

Miami
56
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.

MiamiSeoul
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 80 points.80
MiamiSeoul
Score9515
Swim season months122
Beaches 10 km201
Coast distance1 km28 km
Water distance1 km28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 20 points.20
MiamiSeoul
Score6585
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8983,559
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2932
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 60 points.60
MiamiSeoul
Score2383
Museums within 10 km28203
Museums within 2 km of centre690
Share of museums within 2 km %2144
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 30 points.30
MiamiSeoul
Score5080
Drinking venues within 4 km5383,291
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2871,630
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5350
Nightclubs within 4 km6329
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 40 points.40
MiamiSeoul
Score7232
Protected land share 50 km %161
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4895
Park area within 2 km50 hectares126 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 35 points.35
MiamiSeoul
Score4479
Tourist attractions within 2 km1462
Park area within 2 km50 hectares126 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km28
Sights concentration. Seoul leads by 17 points.17
MiamiSeoul
Score4259
Notable places within 2 km45118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 29 points.29
MiamiSeoul
Score4372
Price level global10059.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 13 points.13
MiamiSeoul
Score7461
Monthly daytime high24.7 °C to 32.7 °C2 °C to 30 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 267 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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Seoul
2
5
11
18
24
28
29
30
26
20
12
4
Sea temperature, °C
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Daylight, hours per day
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Miami
No sunshine record
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. Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMiamiSeoul
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
13 h 45 m
€770-823
ICN · 49 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
5 h 50 m
€344-394
MIA · 7 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€143-193
MIA · 7 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€202-362
MIA · 7 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 50 m
€97-175
MIA · 7 km
14 h 10 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 25 m
€127-180
MIA · 7 km
13 h 50 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 45 m
€144-205
MIA · 7 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
3 h 5 m
€278-290
MIA · 7 km
14 h 55 m
€1,052-1072
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 7 km
8 h 35 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

MeasureMiamiSeoul
Official languageKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Won (KRW)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation2 m38 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiamiSeoul
City population442,2419,668,465
People per km²3,04615,973
Museums within 10 km1780
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre39156
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months2 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). 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.