VacationSelector

Seoul or West Palm Beach?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
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.

SeoulWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 73 points.73
SeoulWest Palm Beach
Score1588
Swim season months212
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance28 km0 km
Water distance28 km0 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 48 points.48
SeoulWest Palm Beach
Score8537
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,559262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3214
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 66 points.66
SeoulWest Palm Beach
Score8317
Museums within 10 km2035
Museums within 2 km of centre903
Share of museums within 2 km %4460
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 60 points.60
SeoulWest Palm Beach
Score8020
Drinking venues within 4 km3,291132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,63090
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5068
Nightclubs within 4 km2910
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 37 points.37
SeoulWest Palm Beach
Score3269
Protected land share 50 km %115
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9545
Park area within 2 km126 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 58 points.58
SeoulWest Palm Beach
Score7921
Tourist attractions within 2 km623
Park area within 2 km126 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km81
Sights concentration. Seoul leads by 47 points.47
SeoulWest Palm Beach
Score5912
Notable places within 2 km1188
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 29 points.29
SeoulWest Palm Beach
Score7243
Price level global59.4100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 14 points.14
SeoulWest Palm Beach
Score6175
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 30 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall18 mm to 422 mm67 mm to 217 mm
Dry months40
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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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Seoul
5
5
6
7
7
6
4
5
6
7
5
5
West Palm Beach
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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSeoulWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
€770-823
ICN · 49 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 20 m
€560-734
ICN · 49 km
5 h 35 m
€349-373
2 stops
FLL · 72 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
13 h 50 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MadridMAD
12 h 25 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 10 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
14 h 10 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
BostonBOS, PSM
13 h 35 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
13 h 5 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 35 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
14 h 55 m
€1,052-1072
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
3 h 5 m
€278-290
MIA · 105 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

MeasureSeoulWest Palm Beach
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 m6 m
Main airportIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeoulWest Palm Beach
City population9,668,465117,415
People per km²15,973786
Museums within 10 km804
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre15618
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months12 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.