VacationSelector

Seoul or Tampa?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

SeoulTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 60 points.60
SeoulTampa
Score1575
Swim season months28
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance28 km1 km
Water distance28 km1 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 31 points.31
SeoulTampa
Score8554
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,559359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3231
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 56 points.56
SeoulTampa
Score8327
Museums within 10 km20313
Museums within 2 km of centre9010
Share of museums within 2 km %4477
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 41 points.41
SeoulTampa
Score8039
Drinking venues within 4 km3,291324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,630227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5070
Nightclubs within 4 km2926
Nature & day trips. Seoul leads by 2 points.2
SeoulTampa
Score3230
Protected land share 50 km %16
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9572
Park area within 2 km126 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 49 points.49
SeoulTampa
Score7930
Tourist attractions within 2 km623
Park area within 2 km126 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km85
Sights concentration. Seoul leads by 38 points.38
SeoulTampa
Score5921
Notable places within 2 km11813
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 29 points.29
SeoulTampa
Score7243
Price level global59.4100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 14 points.14
SeoulTampa
Score6175
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 30 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall18 mm to 422 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months41
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Seoul
5
5
6
7
7
6
4
5
6
7
5
5
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSeoulTampa
TokyoHND, NRT
2 h 5 m
€140-229
ICN · 49 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
€770-823
ICN · 49 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
13 h 5 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
12 h 0 m
€637-697
ICN · 49 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 10 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
13 h 50 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
10 h 30 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 45 m
€646-685
ICN · 49 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 35 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
14 h 55 m
€1,052-1072
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureSeoulTampa
Official languageKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyWon (KRW)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF220 V, 60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 119, fire 119911
Elevation38 m30 m
Main airportIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeoulTampa
City population9,668,465384,959
People per km²15,973848
Museums within 10 km806
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre15647
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months8 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. 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.