VacationSelector

Seattle or Split?

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

Seattle
52
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Split
51
match

Wins on value for money 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.

SeattleSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 13 points.13
SeattleSplit
Score6073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km10087
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 37 points.37
SeattleSplit
Score7538
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,460268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3515
Museums & heritage. Split leads by 16 points.16
SeattleSplit
Score3652
Museums within 10 km2818
Museums within 2 km of centre1716
Share of museums within 2 km %6189
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Seattle leads by 16 points.16
SeattleSplit
Score5741
Drinking venues within 4 km873379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre696263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8069
Nightclubs within 4 km3423
Nature & day trips. Seattle leads by 2 points.2
SeattleSplit
Score4038
Protected land share 50 km %99
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8062
Park area within 2 km63 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Seattle leads by 20 points.20
SeattleSplit
Score4626
Tourist attractions within 2 km179
Park area within 2 km63 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Seattle leads by 10 points.10
SeattleSplit
Score5242
Notable places within 2 km7643
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 37 points.37
SeattleSplit
Score4380
Price level global10048.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Split leads by 8 points.8
SeattleSplit
Score6169
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 24.9 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall15 mm to 160 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months32
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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Split
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Seattle
No sunshine record
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromSeattleSplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
MunichMUC
10 h 40 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
DublinDUB
9 h 15 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
HelsinkiHEL
9 h 40 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
3 h 0 m
€232-306
2 stops
SPU · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
2 h 5 m
€108-177
SPU · 12 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 2026-09 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

MeasureSeattleSplit
Official languageCroatian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation40 m0 m
Main airportSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeattleSplit
City population737,015160,577
People per km²1,996
Museums within 10 km2711
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre7831
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.