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Baden-Baden or Tokyo?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Friedrichsbad, the historic bathhouse, Baden-Baden
Baden-Baden

Photo: Kent Wang, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
Tokyo

Photo: Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

Your match

Baden-Baden
50
match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Tokyo
✓ Best match
80
match

Wins on nightlife and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

Baden-BadenTokyo
Beaches & swimming. Tokyo leads by 32 points.32
Food & drink. Tokyo leads by 53 points.53
Culture & sights. Tokyo leads by 32 points.32
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 71 points.71
Nature & outdoors. Baden-Baden leads by 2 points.2
Day trips. Tokyo leads by 7 points.7
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 45 points.45
Getting around. Tokyo leads by 36 points.36
Shopping & style. Tokyo leads by 61 points.61
Affordability. Tokyo leads by 18 points.18
Live music & performing arts. Tokyo leads by 28 points.28
Wellness & relaxation. Baden-Baden leads by 18 points.18
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baden-Baden and Tokyo.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyBaden-BadenTokyo
Daytime high25 °C30 °C
Night-time low14 °C23 °C
Rainfall in the month117 mm157 mm
Sunshine8 hours a day5 hours a day
Sea temperatureNo sea23 °C
Daylight16 hours a day14 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
J
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A
S
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Baden-Baden
6
7
11
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
6
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Sea temperature, °C
Baden-Baden
No coastline within reach
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Baden-Baden
107
99
106
79
119
104
117
102
91
109
113
122
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Daylight, hours per day
Baden-Baden
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Baden-Baden
2
3
5
6
7
8
8
7
6
3
2
1
Tokyo
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baden-Baden: 1991-2020 normals, Baden-Baden-Geroldsau (3.9 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBaden-BadenTokyo
SingaporeSIN, XSP
12 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 143 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
€490-632
1 stop
FRA · 143 km
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 56 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 5 m
€693-750
3 stops
FRA · 143 km
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
no fares
FKB · 12 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 15 m
€570-612
1 stop
FRA · 143 km
6 h 10 m
€318-337
NRT · 56 km
Hong KongHKG
11 h 25 m
no fares
FRA · 143 km
4 h 10 m
€255-268
NRT · 56 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 143 km
11 h 0 m
€789-943
HND · 18 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 50 m
€683-756
FRA · 143 km
3 h 10 m
€333-353
HND · 18 km
DohaDOH
5 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 147 km
10 h 25 m
€931-1048
1 stop
HND · 18 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
11 h 55 m
no fares
FRA · 143 km
13 h 55 m
no fares
NRT · 56 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBaden-BadenTokyo
Official languageGermanJapanese
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 number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation181 m6 m
Main airportKarlsruhe Baden-Baden Airport (FKB)12 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBaden-BadenTokyo
City population56,95214,264,798
People per km²4066,501
Museums within 10 km11191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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. 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.