VacationSelector

Seattle or Strasbourg?

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

Your match

Seattle
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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.

SeattleStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
SeattleStrasbourg
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1009
Coast distance1 km398 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 8 points.8
SeattleStrasbourg
Score7567
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,460780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3536
Museums & heritage. Strasbourg leads by 5 points.5
SeattleStrasbourg
Score3641
Museums within 10 km2823
Museums within 2 km of centre1714
Share of museums within 2 km %6161
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Seattle leads by 21 points.21
SeattleStrasbourg
Score5736
Drinking venues within 4 km873305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre696264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8087
Nightclubs within 4 km3417
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 14 points.14
SeattleStrasbourg
Score4054
Protected land share 50 km %937
Landscape blanket share 50 km %035
Land share of disc %80100
Park area within 2 km63 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Seattle leads by 8 points.8
SeattleStrasbourg
Score4638
Tourist attractions within 2 km179
Park area within 2 km63 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 6 points.6
SeattleStrasbourg
Score5258
Notable places within 2 km76109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Strasbourg leads by 19 points.19
SeattleStrasbourg
Score4362
Price level global10073.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Strasbourg leads by 2 points.2
SeattleStrasbourg
Score6163
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 24.9 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall15 mm to 160 mm34 mm to 77 mm
Dry months33
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
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Strasbourg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Seattle
No sunshine record
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
1

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). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSeattleStrasbourg
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
2 h 30 m
€111-203
SEA · 18 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 137 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
5 h 0 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 55 m
€257-317
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
3 h 50 m
€204-286
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
4 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 30 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 137 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

MeasureSeattleStrasbourg
Official languageFrench
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation40 m132 m
Main airportSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeattleStrasbourg
City population737,015293,771
People per km²1,9963,752
Museums within 10 km2721
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre7887
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.