VacationSelector

Seoul or Seville?

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

Your match

Seoul
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat with your weighting.

Seville
54
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

SeoulSeville
Beaches & swimming. Seoul leads by 15 points.15
SeoulSeville
Score150
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km12
Coast distance28 km65 km
Water distance28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 19 points.19
SeoulSeville
Score8566
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,5591,370
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3222
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 27 points.27
SeoulSeville
Score8356
Museums within 10 km20350
Museums within 2 km of centre9040
Share of museums within 2 km %4480
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 18 points.18
SeoulSeville
Score8062
Drinking venues within 4 km3,2911,089
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,630679
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5062
Nightclubs within 4 km2957
Nature & day trips. Seville leads by 5 points.5
SeoulSeville
Score3237
Protected land share 50 km %18
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %95100
Park area within 2 km126 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 14 points.14
SeoulSeville
Score7965
Tourist attractions within 2 km6247
Park area within 2 km126 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km82
Sights concentration. Seoul leads by 4 points.4
SeoulSeville
Score5955
Notable places within 2 km11892
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 1 points.1
SeoulSeville
Score7271
Price level global59.460.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Seville leads by 14 points.14
SeoulSeville
Score6175
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 30 °C16.3 °C to 36.2 °C
Monthly rainfall18 mm to 422 mm1 mm to 78 mm
Dry months45
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
Seoul
2
5
11
18
24
28
29
30
26
20
12
4
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Seville
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Daylight, hours per day
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Seoul
5
5
6
7
7
6
4
5
6
7
5
5
Seville
6
7
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
8
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSeoulSeville
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 55 m
€680-750
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 10 m
€687-728
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MadridMAD
12 h 25 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 15 m
€632-735
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 45 m
€646-685
ICN · 49 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 5 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 45 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
2 h 50 m
€180-230
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
LisbonLIS
12 h 55 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
1 h 5 m
€36-67
SVQ · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 0 m
€493-591
ICN · 49 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 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

MeasureSeoulSeville
Official languageKorean, Korean Sign LanguageSpanish
CurrencyWon (KRW)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 119, fire 119112
Elevation38 m18 m
Main airportIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeoulSeville
City population9,668,465689,423
People per km²15,9734,896
Museums within 10 km8024
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre15652
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. 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.