VacationSelector

Seoul or Strasbourg?

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 nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

SeoulStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Seoul leads by 15 points.15
SeoulStrasbourg
Score150
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km19
Coast distance28 km398 km
Water distance28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 18 points.18
SeoulStrasbourg
Score8567
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,559780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3236
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 42 points.42
SeoulStrasbourg
Score8341
Museums within 10 km20323
Museums within 2 km of centre9014
Share of museums within 2 km %4461
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 44 points.44
SeoulStrasbourg
Score8036
Drinking venues within 4 km3,291305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,630264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5087
Nightclubs within 4 km2917
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 22 points.22
SeoulStrasbourg
Score3254
Protected land share 50 km %137
Landscape blanket share 50 km %035
Land share of disc %95100
Park area within 2 km126 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 41 points.41
SeoulStrasbourg
Score7938
Tourist attractions within 2 km629
Park area within 2 km126 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km81
Sights concentration. Seoul leads by 1 points.1
SeoulStrasbourg
Score5958
Notable places within 2 km118109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 10 points.10
SeoulStrasbourg
Score7262
Price level global59.473.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Strasbourg leads by 2 points.2
SeoulStrasbourg
Score6163
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 30 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall18 mm to 422 mm34 mm to 77 mm
Dry months43
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
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Strasbourg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Seoul
5
5
6
7
7
6
4
5
6
7
5
5
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. Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSeoulStrasbourg
BangkokBKK, DMK
5 h 0 m
€176-202
ICN · 49 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
TokyoHND, NRT
2 h 5 m
€140-229
ICN · 49 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
Hong KongHKG
3 h 5 m
€172-189
ICN · 49 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
1 h 40 m
€197-199
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 55 m
€680-750
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
1 h 45 m
€133-212
1 stop
SXB · 10 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
6 h 5 m
€248-279
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 15 m
€632-735
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 20 m
€560-734
ICN · 49 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
Abu DhabiAUH
8 h 45 m
€591-679
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
6 h 15 m
no fares
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

MeasureSeoulStrasbourg
Official languageKorean, Korean Sign LanguageFrench
CurrencyWon (KRW)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 60 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 119, fire 119112
Elevation38 m132 m
Main airportIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeoulStrasbourg
City population9,668,465293,771
People per km²15,9733,752
Museums within 10 km8021
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre15687
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.