VacationSelector

Seoul or Venice?

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.

Venice
57
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.

SeoulVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 54 points.54
SeoulVenice
Score1569
Swim season months24
Beaches 10 km120
Coast distance28 km4 km
Water distance28 km4 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 40 points.40
SeoulVenice
Score8545
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,559750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3210
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 11 points.11
SeoulVenice
Score8372
Museums within 10 km20357
Museums within 2 km of centre9045
Share of museums within 2 km %4479
Unesco sites within 50 km55
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 45 points.45
SeoulVenice
Score8035
Drinking venues within 4 km3,291342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,630306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5089
Nightclubs within 4 km293
Nature & day trips. Seoul leads by 15 points.15
SeoulVenice
Score3217
Protected land share 50 km %14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9570
Park area within 2 km126 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 22 points.22
SeoulVenice
Score7957
Tourist attractions within 2 km6272
Park area within 2 km126 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km83
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 24 points.24
SeoulVenice
Score5983
Notable places within 2 km118464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 4 points.4
SeoulVenice
Score7268
Price level global59.464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 5 points.5
SeoulVenice
Score6166
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 30 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall18 mm to 422 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months42
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Seoul
5
5
6
7
7
6
4
5
6
7
5
5
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSeoulVenice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 10 m
€687-728
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 55 m
€680-750
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
12 h 25 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 45 m
€646-685
ICN · 49 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 15 m
€632-735
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 45 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
1 h 40 m
€197-199
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
€770-823
ICN · 49 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 35 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 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

MeasureSeoulVenice
Official languageKorean, Korean Sign LanguageItalian
CurrencyWon (KRW)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 119, fire 119112
Elevation38 m2 m
Main airportIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeoulVenice
City population9,668,465250,369
People per km²15,973602
Museums within 10 km8052
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km55
Distinct cuisines in the centre15646
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months4 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.