VacationSelector

Seoul or Toronto?

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.

Toronto
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.

SeoulToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 28 points.28
SeoulToronto
Score1543
Swim season months21
Beaches 10 km158
Coast distance28 km533 km
Water distance28 km5 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 3 points.3
SeoulToronto
Score8582
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,5592,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3239
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 40 points.40
SeoulToronto
Score8343
Museums within 10 km20335
Museums within 2 km of centre9025
Share of museums within 2 km %4471
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 11 points.11
SeoulToronto
Score8069
Drinking venues within 4 km3,2911,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,630966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5064
Nightclubs within 4 km29103
Nature & day trips. Seoul leads by 6 points.6
SeoulToronto
Score3226
Protected land share 50 km %12
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %95100
Park area within 2 km126 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 22 points.22
SeoulToronto
Score7957
Tourist attractions within 2 km6223
Park area within 2 km126 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km84
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 2 points.2
SeoulToronto
Score5961
Notable places within 2 km118128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 18 points.18
SeoulToronto
Score7254
Price level global59.484
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Seoul leads by 6 points.6
SeoulToronto
Score6155
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 30 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall18 mm to 422 mm51 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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Seoul
5
5
6
7
7
6
4
5
6
7
5
5
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSeoulToronto
TokyoHND, NRT
2 h 5 m
€140-229
ICN · 49 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
OsakaKIX, ITM, UKB
1 h 40 m
€139-234
ICN · 49 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
€770-823
ICN · 49 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
13 h 5 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
1 h 15 m
€143-160
YYZ · 20 km
Hong KongHKG
3 h 5 m
€172-189
ICN · 49 km
15 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
1 h 45 m
€198-221
ICN · 49 km
13 h 5 m
€1,024-1087
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
10 h 20 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
4 h 35 m
€232-264
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
14 h 55 m
€1,052-1072
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 35 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 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

MeasureSeoulToronto
Official languageKorean, Korean Sign LanguageFrench, English
CurrencyWon (KRW)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
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 m76 m
Main airportIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeoulToronto
City population9,668,4652,794,356
People per km²15,9734,434
Museums within 10 km8032
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre156102
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months1 month

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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.