VacationSelector

Seoul or Stockholm?

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

Seoul
63
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Stockholm
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

SeoulStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 45 points.45
SeoulStockholm
Score1560
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km173
Coast distance28 km0 km
Water distance28 km0 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 9 points.9
SeoulStockholm
Score8576
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,5591,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3236
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 14 points.14
SeoulStockholm
Score8369
Museums within 10 km20374
Museums within 2 km of centre9047
Share of museums within 2 km %4464
Unesco sites within 50 km53
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 16 points.16
SeoulStockholm
Score8064
Drinking venues within 4 km3,2911,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,630689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5063
Nightclubs within 4 km29106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 9 points.9
SeoulStockholm
Score3241
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9577
Park area within 2 km126 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 22 points.22
SeoulStockholm
Score7957
Tourist attractions within 2 km6223
Park area within 2 km126 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km82
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 20 points.20
SeoulStockholm
Score5979
Notable places within 2 km118357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 15 points.15
SeoulStockholm
Score7257
Price level global59.480.3
Daily budget—€169
Year-round weather. Seoul leads by 8 points.8
SeoulStockholm
Score6153
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 30 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall18 mm to 422 mm27 mm to 66 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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Seoul
5
5
6
7
7
6
4
5
6
7
5
5
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSeoulStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
TokyoHND, NRT
2 h 5 m
€140-229
ICN · 49 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 0 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
OsloOSL, TRF
9 h 40 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
1 h 5 m
€77-102
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
8 h 55 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 45 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 10 m
€687-728
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 45 m
€646-685
ICN · 49 km
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
€770-823
ICN · 49 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 35 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 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

MeasureSeoulStockholm
Official languageKorean, Korean Sign LanguageSwedish
CurrencyWon (KRW)Swedish Krona (SEK)
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 m22 m
Main airportIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeoulStockholm
City population9,668,465984,748
People per km²15,9735,260
Museums within 10 km80266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km53
Distinct cuisines in the centre15681
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 monthsNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.