VacationSelector

Porto 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, 1 point apart

Porto
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Seoul
63
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

PortoSeoul
Beaches & swimming. Porto leads by 45 points.45
PortoSeoul
Score6015
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km521
Coast distance4 km28 km
Water distance3 km28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 17 points.17
PortoSeoul
Score6885
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1723,559
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2732
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 12 points.12
PortoSeoul
Score7183
Museums within 10 km101203
Museums within 2 km of centre5790
Share of museums within 2 km %5644
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 22 points.22
PortoSeoul
Score5880
Drinking venues within 4 km9003,291
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5701,630
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6350
Nightclubs within 4 km3829
Nature & day trips. Porto leads by 1 points.1
PortoSeoul
Score3332
Protected land share 50 km %71
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6195
Park area within 2 km30 hectares126 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 14 points.14
PortoSeoul
Score6579
Tourist attractions within 2 km12262
Park area within 2 km30 hectares126 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. Seoul leads by 5 points.5
PortoSeoul
Score5459
Notable places within 2 km85118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Porto leads by 2 points.2
PortoSeoul
Score7472
Price level global55.959.4
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Porto leads by 10 points.10
PortoSeoul
Score7161
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 25.2 °C2 °C to 30 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 181 mm18 mm to 422 mm
Dry months34
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
Porto
14
15
18
18
21
23
25
25
24
20
17
14
Seoul
2
5
11
18
24
28
29
30
26
20
12
4
Sea temperature, °C
Porto
14
13
14
14
16
17
17
17
17
17
16
14
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Porto
151
97
104
99
89
35
22
33
75
158
181
173
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Daylight, hours per day
Porto
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Porto
5
5
7
8
9
9
10
9
8
5
5
4
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. Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortoSeoul
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 5 m
€88-127
OPO · 12 km
11 h 10 m
€687-728
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
€70-124
OPO · 12 km
12 h 25 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€90-144
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 45 m
€81-135
OPO · 12 km
11 h 55 m
€680-750
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 0 m
€81
OPO · 12 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 35 m
€112-173
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
10 h 45 m
€646-685
ICN · 49 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 30 m
€195-198
OPO · 12 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€158-202
1 stop
OPO · 12 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€81-96
OPO · 12 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 55 m
no fares
OPO · 12 km
13 h 45 m
€770-823
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

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 centre132 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoSeoul
City population231,8009,668,465
People per km²5,59915,973
Museums within 10 km4280
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre70156
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone2 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. 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. 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.