VacationSelector

Paris or Seattle?

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

Your match

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Seattle
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

ParisSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
ParisSeattle
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2100
Coast distance149 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 15 points.15
ParisSeattle
Score9075
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,7321,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3335
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 40 points.40
ParisSeattle
Score7636
Museums within 10 km18528
Museums within 2 km of centre6517
Share of museums within 2 km %3561
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Paris leads by 31 points.31
ParisSeattle
Score8857
Drinking venues within 4 km3,796873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,694696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4580
Nightclubs within 4 km20134
Nature & day trips. Paris leads by 8 points.8
ParisSeattle
Score4840
Protected land share 50 km %289
Landscape blanket share 50 km %260
Land share of disc %10080
Park area within 2 km82 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 29 points.29
ParisSeattle
Score7546
Tourist attractions within 2 km8917
Park area within 2 km82 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 42 points.42
ParisSeattle
Score9452
Notable places within 2 km86576
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paris leads by 19 points.19
ParisSeattle
Score6243
Price level global73.7100
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Paris leads by 5 points.5
ParisSeattle
Score6661
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 26 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 75 mm15 mm to 160 mm
Dry months13
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Paris
No coastline within reach
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Paris
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

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromParisSeattle
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 25 m
€687-789
CDG · 22 km
2 h 30 m
€111-203
SEA · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DenverDEN, APA
9 h 55 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
PhoenixPHX, AZA
11 h 0 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 10 m
€509-719
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€118-132
ORY · 14 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 5 m
€705-999
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
9 h 0 m
€555-767
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
4 h 45 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

MeasureParisSeattle
Official languageFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation27 m40 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisSeattle
City population2,103,778737,015
People per km²19,9601,996
Museums within 10 km25127
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre16978
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.