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Banff Avenue below Cascade Mountain, Banff
BanffBanff Avenue below Cascade Mountain
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Banff by bryan pascual, Pexels License; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Banff 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 Banff for

  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • day trips
  • food and drink
  • prices

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. Banff 12, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Banff 32, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Banff 22, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Banff 30, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Banff 98, Yokohama 66: Banff leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Banff 25, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 61 points.
Good for families. Banff 60, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Banff 55, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Banff 28, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Banff 18, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Banff 32, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Banff 54, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Banff and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Banff
39match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on day trips and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Banff in July

23 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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

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

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Banff: 1991-2020 normals, Banff (2 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBanffYokohama
Official languageFrench, EnglishJapanese
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation1,400 m24 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)109 km from centre103 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBanffYokohama
City population8,3053,757,630
People per km²1,7308,585
Museums within 10 km438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.