VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Yokohama?

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

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Yokohama
61
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

AmsterdamYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Yokohama leads by 9 points.9
AmsterdamYokohama
Score4049
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km332
Coast distance24 km1 km
Water distance24 km1 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 5 points.5
AmsterdamYokohama
Score8378
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,9573,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4424
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 27 points.27
AmsterdamYokohama
Score8053
Museums within 10 km9857
Museums within 2 km of centre6931
Share of museums within 2 km %7054
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Yokohama leads by 4 points.4
AmsterdamYokohama
Score7074
Drinking venues within 4 km1,5432,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,0781,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7064
Nightclubs within 4 km11433
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 2 points.2
AmsterdamYokohama
Score6058
Protected land share 50 km %21—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8267
Park area within 2 km49 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 10 points.10
AmsterdamYokohama
Score6858
Tourist attractions within 2 km7416
Park area within 2 km49 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km38
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 24 points.24
AmsterdamYokohama
Score6844
Notable places within 2 km19649
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Yokohama leads by 12 points.12
AmsterdamYokohama
Score5870
Price level global79.262.4
Daily budget€181—
Year-round weather. Yokohama leads by 6 points.6
AmsterdamYokohama
Score5763
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm46 mm to 219 mm
Dry months00
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
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamYokohama
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 77 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€166-175
AMS · 12 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
Hong KongHKG
11 h 35 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
4 h 10 m
€255-268
NRT · 77 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
11 h 0 m
€789-943
HND · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 12 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 2026-08 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

MeasureAmsterdamYokohama
Official languageDutchJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112 or 911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation-2 m24 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamYokohama
City population921,4683,757,630
People per km²4,2088,585
Museums within 10 km10138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre9866
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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. 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.