VacationSelector

Seattle or Stuttgart?

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 beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Stuttgart
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

SeattleStuttgart
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
SeattleStuttgart
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1003
Coast distance1 km476 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 16 points.16
SeattleStuttgart
Score7559
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,460575
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3529
Museums & heritage. Stuttgart leads by 20 points.20
SeattleStuttgart
Score3656
Museums within 10 km2865
Museums within 2 km of centre1721
Share of museums within 2 km %6132
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Seattle leads by 8 points.8
SeattleStuttgart
Score5749
Drinking venues within 4 km873524
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre696374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8071
Nightclubs within 4 km3453
Nature & day trips. Stuttgart leads by 40 points.40
SeattleStuttgart
Score4080
Protected land share 50 km %951
Landscape blanket share 50 km %031
Land share of disc %80100
Park area within 2 km63 hectares78 hectares
Good for families. Seattle leads by 1 points.1
SeattleStuttgart
Score4645
Tourist attractions within 2 km1711
Park area within 2 km63 hectares78 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Seattle leads by 8 points.8
SeattleStuttgart
Score5244
Notable places within 2 km7650
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Stuttgart leads by 17 points.17
SeattleStuttgart
Score4360
Price level global10075.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Stuttgart leads by 2 points.2
SeattleStuttgart
Score6163
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 24.9 °C5.6 °C to 25.9 °C
Monthly rainfall15 mm to 160 mm33 mm to 79 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
Stuttgart
6
7
12
16
21
24
26
26
21
16
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Stuttgart
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Stuttgart
35
33
43
37
72
77
79
63
49
55
50
50
Daylight, hours per day
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Stuttgart
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Seattle
No sunshine record
Stuttgart
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
2

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). Stuttgart: 1991-2020 normals, Stuttgart / Neckartal (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSeattleStuttgart
IstanbulIST, SAW
12 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
2 h 40 m
€139-291
STR · 10 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
15 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
2 h 30 m
€111-203
SEA · 18 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
DenverDEN, APA
2 h 35 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 146 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
50 m
no fares
STR · 10 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 50 m
€111-165
STR · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 146 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
5 h 0 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
8 h 20 m
€656-803
2 stops
FRA · 146 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 km
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 146 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

MeasureSeattleStuttgart
Official languageGerman
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 m245 m
Main airportSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsStuttgart Airport (STR)10 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeattleStuttgart
City population737,015633,484
People per km²1,9963,054
Museums within 10 km2742
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre7859
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.