VacationSelector

Seoul or Tallinn?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Tallinn
54
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.

SeoulTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 39 points.39
SeoulTallinn
Score1554
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km118
Coast distance28 km0 km
Water distance28 km0 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 23 points.23
SeoulTallinn
Score8562
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,559481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3239
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 21 points.21
SeoulTallinn
Score8362
Museums within 10 km20371
Museums within 2 km of centre9057
Share of museums within 2 km %4480
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 34 points.34
SeoulTallinn
Score8046
Drinking venues within 4 km3,291462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,630370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5080
Nightclubs within 4 km2943
Nature & day trips. Seoul leads by 1 points.1
SeoulTallinn
Score3231
Protected land share 50 km %12
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9553
Park area within 2 km126 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 28 points.28
SeoulTallinn
Score7951
Tourist attractions within 2 km6220
Park area within 2 km126 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km81
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 3 points.3
SeoulTallinn
Score5962
Notable places within 2 km118135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 2 points.2
SeoulTallinn
Score7270
Price level global59.462.4
Daily budget€143
Year-round weather. Seoul leads by 13 points.13
SeoulTallinn
Score6148
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 30 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall18 mm to 422 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months44
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
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Tallinn
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
Tallinn
1
2
5
7
10
10
10
8
5
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). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSeoulTallinn
TokyoHND, NRT
2 h 5 m
€140-229
ICN · 49 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
5 h 0 m
€176-202
ICN · 49 km
10 h 0 m
€603-634
HEL · 99 km
OsakaKIX, ITM, UKB
1 h 40 m
€139-234
ICN · 49 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 45 m
€646-685
ICN · 49 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
HelsinkiHEL
8 h 55 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
Hong KongHKG
3 h 5 m
€172-189
ICN · 49 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
€770-823
ICN · 49 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
9 h 45 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
1 h 40 m
€197-199
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
HEL · 99 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

MeasureSeoulTallinn
Official languageKorean, Korean Sign LanguageEstonian
CurrencyWon (KRW)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 119, fire 119112
Elevation38 m28 m
Main airportIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeoulTallinn
City population9,668,465457,572
People per km²15,9732,871
Museums within 10 km8015
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre15663
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. 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.