VacationSelector

Seattle or Turin?

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, level with your weighting

Seattle
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Turin
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money 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.

SeattleTurin
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
SeattleTurin
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1001
Coast distance1 km105 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 11 points.11
SeattleTurin
Score7564
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4601,198
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3521
Museums & heritage. Turin leads by 32 points.32
SeattleTurin
Score3668
Museums within 10 km2865
Museums within 2 km of centre1739
Share of museums within 2 km %6160
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Turin leads by 9 points.9
SeattleTurin
Score5766
Drinking venues within 4 km8731,375
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre696768
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8056
Nightclubs within 4 km3457
Nature & day trips. Seattle leads by 7 points.7
SeattleTurin
Score4033
Protected land share 50 km %96
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %80100
Park area within 2 km63 hectares72 hectares
Good for families. Turin leads by 7 points.7
SeattleTurin
Score4653
Tourist attractions within 2 km1736
Park area within 2 km63 hectares72 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Turin leads by 3 points.3
SeattleTurin
Score5255
Notable places within 2 km7692
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Turin leads by 25 points.25
SeattleTurin
Score4368
Price level global10064.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Turin leads by 3 points.3
SeattleTurin
Score6164
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 24.9 °C7.1 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall15 mm to 160 mm44 mm to 127 mm
Dry months30
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
Turin
7
9
14
18
21
26
29
28
24
18
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Turin
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Turin
54
44
50
78
102
75
57
83
116
113
127
49
Daylight, hours per day
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Turin
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9

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). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSeattleTurin
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 103 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TRN · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
TRN · 14 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 55 m
€257-317
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 103 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 20 m
€554-583
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
TRN · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
10 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 25 m
€36-129
TRN · 14 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 103 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 30 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
MXP · 103 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
TRN · 14 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 km
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 103 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

MeasureSeattleTurin
Official languageItalian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation40 m239 m
Main airportSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsTurin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeattleTurin
City population737,015841,600
People per km²1,9966,474
Museums within 10 km2772
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre7878
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.