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The domes and minarets of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Abu Dhabi
Abu DhabiThe domes and minarets of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Abu Dhabi by Jeffry Surianto, Pexels License; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Abu Dhabi or Yokohama?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Abu Dhabi for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Abu Dhabi’s own page.

Choose Yokohama for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Abu Dhabi 78, Yokohama 46: Abu Dhabi leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Abu Dhabi 55, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Abu Dhabi 64, Yokohama 55: Abu Dhabi leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Abu Dhabi 34, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Abu Dhabi 28, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Abu Dhabi 45, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Abu Dhabi 82, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Abu Dhabi 24, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 63 points.
Shopping & style. Abu Dhabi 50, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Abu Dhabi 38, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Abu Dhabi 32, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Abu Dhabi 46, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Abu Dhabi and Yokohama.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Abu Dhabi
48match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Abu Dhabi in July

43 °Cdaytime high
30 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
33 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Abu Dhabi's temperatures are measured 26 km from the centre, at Abu Dhabi International Airport.

Abu Dhabi has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Abu Dhabi: 1991-2020 normals, Abu Dhabi International Airport (25.7 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAbu DhabiYokohama
Official languageArabicJapanese
CurrencyUAE Dirham (AED)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCG220 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation14 m24 m
Main airportZayed International Airport (AUH)26 km from centre147 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAbu DhabiYokohama
City population1,570,0003,757,630
People per km²1,6158,585
Museums within 10 km338
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C11 months5 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.