VacationSelector

Rotterdam or Seoul?

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

Your match

Rotterdam
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Seoul
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage 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.

RotterdamSeoul
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 22 points.22
RotterdamSeoul
Score3715
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km221
Coast distance24 km28 km
Water distance24 km28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 13 points.13
RotterdamSeoul
Score7285
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8623,559
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4632
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 23 points.23
RotterdamSeoul
Score6083
Museums within 10 km41203
Museums within 2 km of centre2090
Share of museums within 2 km %4944
Unesco sites within 50 km55
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 31 points.31
RotterdamSeoul
Score4980
Drinking venues within 4 km5423,291
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3781,630
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7050
Nightclubs within 4 km4029
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 10 points.10
RotterdamSeoul
Score4232
Protected land share 50 km %101
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7995
Park area within 2 km61 hectares126 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 17 points.17
RotterdamSeoul
Score6279
Tourist attractions within 2 km2762
Park area within 2 km61 hectares126 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km88
Sights concentration. Seoul leads by 8 points.8
RotterdamSeoul
Score5159
Notable places within 2 km74118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 14 points.14
RotterdamSeoul
Score5872
Price level global79.259.4
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Seoul leads by 5 points.5
RotterdamSeoul
Score5661
Monthly daytime high6.2 °C to 22.1 °C2 °C to 30 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Seoul
2
5
11
18
24
28
29
30
26
20
12
4
Sea temperature, °C
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Daylight, hours per day
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
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. Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRotterdamSeoul
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
11 h 10 m
€687-728
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
12 h 25 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
13 h 45 m
€770-823
ICN · 49 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
2 h 5 m
€140-229
ICN · 49 km
OsakaKIX, ITM, UKB
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
1 h 40 m
€139-234
ICN · 49 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
1 h 40 m
€197-199
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
Hong KongHKG
11 h 35 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
3 h 5 m
€172-189
ICN · 49 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
14 h 55 m
€1,052-1072
2 stops
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

MeasureRotterdamSeoul
Official languageDutchKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Won (KRW)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112 or 911Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation10 m38 m
Main airportRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureRotterdamSeoul
City population664,3119,668,465
People per km²2,08015,973
Museums within 10 km4080
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km55
Distinct cuisines in the centre77156
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.