VacationSelector

Munich or Seattle?

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

Your match

Munich
✓ Best match
57
match

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

Seattle
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

MunichSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
MunichSeattle
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km6100
Coast distance579 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 2 points.2
MunichSeattle
Score7375
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2801,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3535
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 25 points.25
MunichSeattle
Score6136
Museums within 10 km7428
Museums within 2 km of centre4817
Share of museums within 2 km %6561
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Munich leads by 10 points.10
MunichSeattle
Score6757
Drinking venues within 4 km1,335873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre763696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5780
Nightclubs within 4 km10334
Nature & day trips. Munich leads by 8 points.8
MunichSeattle
Score4840
Protected land share 50 km %179
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km199 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 33 points.33
MunichSeattle
Score7946
Tourist attractions within 2 km8017
Park area within 2 km199 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 16 points.16
MunichSeattle
Score6852
Notable places within 2 km19676
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Munich leads by 17 points.17
MunichSeattle
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Seattle leads by 5 points.5
MunichSeattle
Score5661
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 25 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 121 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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Munich
No coastline within reach
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
2
2
Seattle
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMunichSeattle
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
12 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
2 h 30 m
€111-203
SEA · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
9 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
3 h 55 m
€257-317
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
DenverDEN, APA
10 h 30 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 29 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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 2026-09 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

MeasureMunichSeattle
Official languageGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation519 m40 m
Main airportMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMunichSeattle
City population1,510,378737,015
People per km²4,8611,996
Museums within 10 km7427
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8978
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.