VacationSelector

Seoul or Zagreb?

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 good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Zagreb
47
match

Wins on value for money 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.

SeoulZagreb
Beaches & swimming. Seoul leads by 15 points.15
SeoulZagreb
Score150
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km18
Coast distance28 km117 km
Water distance28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 33 points.33
SeoulZagreb
Score8552
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,559374
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3227
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 38 points.38
SeoulZagreb
Score8345
Museums within 10 km20341
Museums within 2 km of centre9040
Share of museums within 2 km %4498
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 19 points.19
SeoulZagreb
Score8061
Drinking venues within 4 km3,2911,009
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,630571
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5057
Nightclubs within 4 km2963
Nature & day trips. Zagreb leads by 2 points.2
SeoulZagreb
Score3234
Protected land share 50 km %19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %95100
Park area within 2 km126 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 51 points.51
SeoulZagreb
Score7928
Tourist attractions within 2 km627
Park area within 2 km126 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km80
Sights concentration. Zagreb leads by 1 points.1
SeoulZagreb
Score5960
Notable places within 2 km118122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zagreb leads by 8 points.8
SeoulZagreb
Score7280
Price level global59.448.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Zagreb leads by 1 points.1
SeoulZagreb
Score6162
Monthly daytime high2 °C to 30 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall18 mm to 422 mm47 mm to 104 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
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Sea temperature, °C
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Zagreb
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Zagreb
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
Zagreb
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
9
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Seoul: 1991-2020 normals, Seoul (2.2 km from centre). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSeoulZagreb
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 45 m
€646-685
ICN · 49 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 0 m
€493-591
ICN · 49 km
2 h 0 m
€153-254
ZAG · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 10 m
€687-728
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 45 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MunichMUC
10 h 40 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DohaDOH
9 h 0 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 20 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
BishkekBSZ
5 h 50 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
6 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 10 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 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

MeasureSeoulZagreb
Official languageKorean, Korean Sign LanguageCroatian
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 m127 m
Main airportIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeoulZagreb
City population9,668,465767,131
People per km²15,973
Museums within 10 km8027
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre15642
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.