VacationSelector

Seoul or Toledo?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Toledo
40
match

Wins on 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.

SeoulToledo
Beaches & swimming. Seoul leads by 15 points.15
SeoulToledo
Score150
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km11
Coast distance28 km320 km
Water distance28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 61 points.61
SeoulToledo
Score8524
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,559249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km327
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 37 points.37
SeoulToledo
Score8346
Museums within 10 km20319
Museums within 2 km of centre9019
Share of museums within 2 km %44100
Unesco sites within 50 km52
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 63 points.63
SeoulToledo
Score8017
Drinking venues within 4 km3,291120
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,630115
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5096
Nightclubs within 4 km295
Nature & day trips. Seoul leads by 4 points.4
SeoulToledo
Score3228
Protected land share 50 km %14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %95100
Park area within 2 km126 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 25 points.25
SeoulToledo
Score7954
Tourist attractions within 2 km6232
Park area within 2 km126 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km81
Sights concentration. Seoul leads by 13 points.13
SeoulToledo
Score5946
Notable places within 2 km11855
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 1 points.1
SeoulToledo
Score7271
Price level global59.460.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Toledo leads by 13 points.13
SeoulToledo
Score6174
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 30 °C11.9 °C to 35.1 °C
Monthly rainfall18 mm to 422 mm6 mm to 49 mm
Dry months411
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
Toledo
12
14
18
21
25
31
35
35
29
23
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Toledo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Toledo
26
25
33
40
39
19
6
9
21
49
38
35
Daylight, hours per day
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Toledo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Seoul
5
5
6
7
7
6
4
5
6
7
5
5
Toledo
5
6
7
8
10
11
13
12
9
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSeoulToledo
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 10 m
€687-728
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 80 km
TokyoHND, NRT
2 h 5 m
€140-229
ICN · 49 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 80 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 55 m
€680-750
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 15 m
€632-735
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 80 km
Hong KongHKG
3 h 5 m
€172-189
ICN · 49 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
LisbonLIS
12 h 55 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
1 h 15 m
€40-87
MAD · 80 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
€770-823
ICN · 49 km
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
14 h 55 m
€1,052-1072
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
11 h 20 m
€861-905
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
DohaDOH
9 h 0 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
MAD · 80 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

MeasureSeoulToledo
Official languageKorean, Korean Sign LanguageSpanish
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
Elevation38 m523 m
Main airportIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeoulToledo
City population9,668,46587,216
People per km²15,973376
Museums within 10 km8013
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km52
Distinct cuisines in the centre15613
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.