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The Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta
AtlantaThe Georgia State Capitol
The red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji, Fukuoka
FukuokaThe red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji

Photos: Atlanta by DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Fukuoka by Nick-D, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Atlanta or Fukuoka?

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 Atlanta for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose Fukuoka for

  • getting around
  • beaches
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Fukuoka’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. Atlanta 10, Fukuoka 50: Fukuoka leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Atlanta 68, Fukuoka 82: Fukuoka leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Atlanta 55, Fukuoka 50: Atlanta leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Atlanta 65, Fukuoka 60: Atlanta leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Atlanta 60, Fukuoka 62: Fukuoka leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Atlanta 52, Fukuoka 84: Fukuoka leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Atlanta 70, Fukuoka 78: Fukuoka leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Atlanta 28, Fukuoka 82: Fukuoka leads by 54 points.
Shopping & style. Atlanta 50, Fukuoka 65: Fukuoka leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Atlanta 40, Fukuoka 58: Fukuoka leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Atlanta 62, Fukuoka 45: Atlanta leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Atlanta 33, Fukuoka 60: Fukuoka leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Atlanta and Fukuoka.

Your match

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

Atlanta
49match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Fukuoka
Best match
65match

Wins on getting around and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Atlanta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
120 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Fukuoka in July

31 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
301 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

Atlanta 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Atlanta / Carroll Heights (12.5 km from centre). Fukuoka: 1991-2020 normals, Fukuoka (1.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAtlantaFukuoka
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation225 m8 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsFukuoka Airport (FUK)5 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaFukuoka
City population498,7151,603,043
People per km²1,4334,715
Museums within 10 km2723
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.