VacationSelector

Milan or Seattle?

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

Your match

Milan
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Seattle
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

MilanSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
MilanSeattle
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4100
Coast distance120 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 5 points.5
MilanSeattle
Score7075
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,9911,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2035
Museums & heritage. Milan leads by 38 points.38
MilanSeattle
Score7436
Museums within 10 km8728
Museums within 2 km of centre5517
Share of museums within 2 km %6361
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Milan leads by 18 points.18
MilanSeattle
Score7557
Drinking venues within 4 km2,215873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre961696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4380
Nightclubs within 4 km7034
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 25 points.25
MilanSeattle
Score6540
Protected land share 50 km %309
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km102 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Milan leads by 31 points.31
MilanSeattle
Score7746
Tourist attractions within 2 km7617
Park area within 2 km102 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 22 points.22
MilanSeattle
Score7452
Notable places within 2 km26676
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Milan leads by 25 points.25
MilanSeattle
Score6843
Price level global64.9100
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Milan leads by 3 points.3
MilanSeattle
Score6461
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28.6 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 127 mm15 mm to 160 mm
Dry months03
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
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Milan
No coastline within reach
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Milan
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
5
4
2
2
Seattle
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMilanSeattle
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 7 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
3 h 55 m
€257-317
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 7 km
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 40 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 40 km
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 5 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
10 h 30 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 2026-08 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

MeasureMilanSeattle
Official languageItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation138 m40 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMilanSeattle
City population1,354,196737,015
People per km²7,4531,996
Museums within 10 km8727
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre7978
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.