VacationSelector

Seoul or Yokohama?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Seoul
63
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Yokohama
61
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

SeoulYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Yokohama leads by 34 points.34
SeoulYokohama
Score1549
Swim season months25
Beaches 10 km12
Coast distance28 km1 km
Water distance28 km1 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 7 points.7
SeoulYokohama
Score8578
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,5593,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3224
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 30 points.30
SeoulYokohama
Score8353
Museums within 10 km20357
Museums within 2 km of centre9031
Share of museums within 2 km %4454
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 6 points.6
SeoulYokohama
Score8074
Drinking venues within 4 km3,2912,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,6301,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5064
Nightclubs within 4 km2933
Nature & day trips. Yokohama leads by 26 points.26
SeoulYokohama
Score3258
Protected land share 50 km %1
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9567
Park area within 2 km126 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 21 points.21
SeoulYokohama
Score7958
Tourist attractions within 2 km6216
Park area within 2 km126 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km88
Sights concentration. Seoul leads by 15 points.15
SeoulYokohama
Score5944
Notable places within 2 km11849
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seoul leads by 2 points.2
SeoulYokohama
Score7270
Price level global59.462.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Yokohama leads by 2 points.2
SeoulYokohama
Score6163
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 30 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall18 mm to 422 mm46 mm to 219 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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Seoul
2
5
11
18
24
28
29
30
26
20
12
4
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Seoul
5
5
6
7
7
6
4
5
6
7
5
5
Yokohama
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromSeoulYokohama
OsakaKIX, ITM, UKB
1 h 40 m
€139-234
ICN · 49 km
1 h 10 m
€106-119
HND · 18 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
1 h 40 m
€197-199
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
Hong KongHKG
3 h 5 m
€172-189
ICN · 49 km
4 h 10 m
€255-268
NRT · 77 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
5 h 0 m
€176-202
ICN · 49 km
6 h 10 m
€318-337
NRT · 77 km
FukuokaFUK
1 h 20 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
1 h 40 m
€136-196
HND · 18 km
SapporoCTS, OKD
2 h 20 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
1 h 40 m
€149-164
HND · 18 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 20 m
€560-734
ICN · 49 km
10 h 25 m
€755-991
1 stop
HND · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 45 m
€646-685
ICN · 49 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
DohaDOH
9 h 0 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
10 h 25 m
€931-1048
1 stop
HND · 18 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
14 h 55 m
€1,052-1072
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
13 h 55 m
no fares
NRT · 77 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

MeasureSeoulYokohama
Official languageKorean, Korean Sign LanguageJapanese
CurrencyWon (KRW)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF220 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 119, fire 119Police 110, fire 119
Elevation38 m24 m
Main airportIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeoulYokohama
City population9,668,4653,757,630
People per km²15,9738,585
Museums within 10 km8038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre15666
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months5 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Seoul or Yokohama somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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.