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Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira
Hanok houses in Bukchon, Seoul
SeoulHanok houses in Bukchon

Photos: Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Seoul by 거열 박, Pexels License.

Porto or Seoul?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Porto for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Porto’s own page.

Choose Seoul for

  • wellness
  • shopping
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Seoul’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Porto 40, Seoul 18: Porto leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Porto 70, Seoul 84: Seoul leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Porto 68, Seoul 75: Seoul leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Porto 65, Seoul 84: Seoul leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Porto 64, Seoul 75: Seoul leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Porto 79, Seoul 77: Porto leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Porto 52, Seoul 80: Seoul leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Porto 66, Seoul 87: Seoul leads by 21 points.
Shopping & style. Porto 52, Seoul 85: Seoul leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Porto 62, Seoul 50: Porto leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Porto 52, Seoul 63: Seoul leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Porto 34, Seoul 75: Seoul leads by 41 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Porto and Seoul.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Porto
59match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Seoul
Best match
71match

Wins on wellness and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Seoul in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
422 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePortoSeoul
Official languagePortugueseKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Won (KRW)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation104 m38 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre134 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre162 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoSeoul
City population273,4769,668,465
People per km²6,60615,973
Museums within 10 km4281
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone2 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.