VacationSelector

Seoul or The Hague?

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.

The Hague
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

SeoulThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 45 points.45
SeoulThe Hague
Score1560
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km134
Coast distance28 km3 km
Water distance28 km3 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 15 points.15
SeoulThe Hague
Score8570
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,559798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3243
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 21 points.21
SeoulThe Hague
Score8362
Museums within 10 km20346
Museums within 2 km of centre9026
Share of museums within 2 km %4457
Unesco sites within 50 km54
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 34 points.34
SeoulThe Hague
Score8046
Drinking venues within 4 km3,291511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,630288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5056
Nightclubs within 4 km2919
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 22 points.22
SeoulThe Hague
Score3254
Protected land share 50 km %18
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9556
Park area within 2 km126 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 23 points.23
SeoulThe Hague
Score7956
Tourist attractions within 2 km6210
Park area within 2 km126 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km87
Sights concentration. Seoul leads by 5 points.5
SeoulThe Hague
Score5954
Notable places within 2 km11886
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 14 points.14
SeoulThe Hague
Score7258
Price level global59.479.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. Seoul leads by 7 points.7
SeoulThe Hague
Score6154
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 30 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall18 mm to 422 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months40
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
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Seoul
5
5
6
7
7
6
4
5
6
7
5
5
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSeoulThe Hague
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 10 m
€687-728
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
12 h 25 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
€770-823
ICN · 49 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 0 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 35 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
TokyoHND, NRT
2 h 5 m
€140-229
ICN · 49 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
OsakaKIX, ITM, UKB
1 h 40 m
€139-234
ICN · 49 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
1 h 40 m
€197-199
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Hong KongHKG
3 h 5 m
€172-189
ICN · 49 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
14 h 55 m
€1,052-1072
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 40 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 2026-09 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

MeasureSeoulThe Hague
Official languageKorean, Korean Sign LanguageDutch
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 or 911
Elevation38 m1 m
Main airportIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeoulThe Hague
City population9,668,465548,320
People per km²15,9735,589
Museums within 10 km8054
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km54
Distinct cuisines in the centre15677
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.