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Athens or Yokohama?

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

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

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

Yokohama
61
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat 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.

AthensYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Yokohama leads by 1 points.1
AthensYokohama
Score4849
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km142
Coast distance6 km1 km
Water distance6 km1 km
Places to eat. Yokohama leads by 9 points.9
AthensYokohama
Score6978
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4313,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2524
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 20 points.20
AthensYokohama
Score7353
Museums within 10 km12257
Museums within 2 km of centre7831
Share of museums within 2 km %6454
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Athens leads by 7 points.7
AthensYokohama
Score8174
Drinking venues within 4 km2,7182,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,3541,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5064
Nightclubs within 4 km13633
Nature & day trips. Yokohama leads by 13 points.13
AthensYokohama
Score4558
Protected land share 50 km %5
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5067
Park area within 2 km128 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 13 points.13
AthensYokohama
Score7158
Tourist attractions within 2 km6816
Park area within 2 km128 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 31 points.31
AthensYokohama
Score7544
Notable places within 2 km29149
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Athens leads by 4 points.4
AthensYokohama
Score7470
Price level global55.862.4
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Athens leads by 11 points.11
AthensYokohama
Score7463
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm46 mm to 219 mm
Dry months70
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
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
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
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
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. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensYokohama
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 40 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 77 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 45 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€174-212
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 5 m
€125-147
ATH · 20 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
11 h 20 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
6 h 55 m
€353-477
1 stop
HND · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€97-139
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
HND · 18 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

MeasureAthensYokohama
Official languageGreekJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation74 m24 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensYokohama
City population643,4523,757,630
People per km²16,4998,585
Museums within 10 km8838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre8266
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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.