VacationSelector

Salzburg or Seoul?

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

Your match

Salzburg
42
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Seoul
✓ Best match
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.

SalzburgSeoul
Beaches & swimming. Seoul leads by 15 points.15
SalzburgSeoul
Score015
Swim season months02
Beaches 10 km91
Coast distance653 km28 km
Water distance28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 36 points.36
SalzburgSeoul
Score4985
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3483,559
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2332
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 23 points.23
SalzburgSeoul
Score6083
Museums within 10 km42203
Museums within 2 km of centre2790
Share of museums within 2 km %6444
Unesco sites within 50 km35
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 44 points.44
SalzburgSeoul
Score3680
Drinking venues within 4 km2943,291
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2411,630
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8250
Nightclubs within 4 km1629
Nature & day trips. Seoul leads by 5 points.5
SalzburgSeoul
Score2732
Protected land share 50 km %61
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km39 hectares126 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 31 points.31
SalzburgSeoul
Score4879
Tourist attractions within 2 km1762
Park area within 2 km39 hectares126 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km48
Sights concentration. Seoul leads by 13 points.13
SalzburgSeoul
Score4659
Notable places within 2 km54118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 13 points.13
SalzburgSeoul
Score5972
Price level global76.959.4
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Seoul leads by 7 points.7
SalzburgSeoul
Score5461
Monthly daytime high3.4 °C to 24.9 °C2 °C to 30 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 168 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
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Seoul
2
5
11
18
24
28
29
30
26
20
12
4
Sea temperature, °C
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Daylight, hours per day
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
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. Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre). Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSalzburgSeoul
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
11 h 10 m
€687-728
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
11 h 55 m
€680-750
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
2 h 5 m
€140-229
ICN · 49 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
12 h 25 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
5 h 0 m
€176-202
ICN · 49 km
OsakaKIX, ITM, UKB
11 h 30 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
1 h 40 m
€139-234
ICN · 49 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
11 h 15 m
€632-735
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
13 h 45 m
€770-823
ICN · 49 km
Abu DhabiAUH
6 h 5 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
8 h 45 m
€591-679
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 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

MeasureSalzburgSeoul
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageKorean, 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 number112Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation424 m38 m
Main airportSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureSalzburgSeoul
City population155,0219,668,465
People per km²2,36015,973
Museums within 10 km3880
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km35
Distinct cuisines in the centre50156
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.