VacationSelector

Milan or Seoul?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Milan
63
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

Seoul
63
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.

MilanSeoul
Beaches & swimming. Seoul leads by 15 points.15
MilanSeoul
Score015
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km41
Coast distance120 km28 km
Water distance28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 15 points.15
MilanSeoul
Score7085
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,9913,559
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2032
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 9 points.9
MilanSeoul
Score7483
Museums within 10 km87203
Museums within 2 km of centre5590
Share of museums within 2 km %6344
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 5 points.5
MilanSeoul
Score7580
Drinking venues within 4 km2,2153,291
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre9611,630
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4350
Nightclubs within 4 km7029
Nature & day trips. Milan leads by 33 points.33
MilanSeoul
Score6532
Protected land share 50 km %301
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km102 hectares126 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 2 points.2
MilanSeoul
Score7779
Tourist attractions within 2 km7662
Park area within 2 km102 hectares126 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km58
Sights concentration. Milan leads by 15 points.15
MilanSeoul
Score7459
Notable places within 2 km266118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 4 points.4
MilanSeoul
Score6872
Price level global64.959.4
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Milan leads by 3 points.3
MilanSeoul
Score6461
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28.6 °C2 °C to 30 °C
Monthly rainfall44 mm to 127 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
Milan
7
10
15
17
23
26
29
28
24
18
11
7
Seoul
2
5
11
18
24
28
29
30
26
20
12
4
Sea temperature, °C
Milan
No coastline within reach
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Milan
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Daylight, hours per day
Milan
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
Milan
3
4
5
6
7
7
9
8
5
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. Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Novara / Cameri (41.2 km from centre). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMilanSeoul
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
2 h 5 m
€140-229
ICN · 49 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 40 km
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 40 km
11 h 10 m
€687-728
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 40 km
11 h 55 m
€680-750
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 7 km
11 h 15 m
€632-735
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 40 km
13 h 45 m
€770-823
ICN · 49 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 40 km
10 h 0 m
€493-591
ICN · 49 km
Hong KongHKG
11 h 40 m
no fares
MXP · 40 km
3 h 5 m
€172-189
ICN · 49 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 40 km
12 h 25 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 40 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

MeasureMilanSeoul
Official languageItalianKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Won (KRW)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation138 m38 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureMilanSeoul
City population1,354,1969,668,465
People per km²7,45315,973
Museums within 10 km8780
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre79156
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.