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The church of La Compania under a blue sky, Arequipa
ArequipaThe church of La Compania under a blue sky
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Arequipa by DocSlyper, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Arequipa 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 Arequipa for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • day trips
  • families
  • beaches

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. Arequipa 8, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Arequipa 66, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Arequipa 64, Yokohama 55: Arequipa leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Arequipa 36, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Arequipa 74, Yokohama 66: Arequipa leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Arequipa 30, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 56 points.
Good for families. Arequipa 35, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 51 points.
Getting around. Arequipa 54, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Arequipa 44, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Arequipa 82, Yokohama 55: Arequipa leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Arequipa 27, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Arequipa 34, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Arequipa and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Arequipa
46match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on day trips and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Arequipa in July

21 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 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

Arequipa's station stands 203 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Arequipa: 1991-2020 normals, Arequipa (9.2 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureArequipaYokohama
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaJapanese
CurrencySol (PEN)Yen (JPY)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+9
Emergency number111 or 911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation2,335 m24 m
Main airportRodríguez Ballón International Airport (AQP)7 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureArequipaYokohama
City population1,008,2903,757,630
People per km²1,5518,585
Museums within 10 km338
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.