VacationSelector

Bangkok or Yokohama?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bangkok
62
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

Yokohama
61
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

BangkokYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Yokohama leads by 9 points.9
BangkokYokohama
Score4049
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance23 km1 km
Water distance23 km1 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 5 points.5
BangkokYokohama
Score8378
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,9573,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2624
Museums & heritage. Yokohama leads by 7 points.7
BangkokYokohama
Score4653
Museums within 10 km10357
Museums within 2 km of centre3031
Share of museums within 2 km %2954
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 9 points.9
BangkokYokohama
Score8374
Drinking venues within 4 km3,3832,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,3961,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4164
Nightclubs within 4 km7233
Nature & day trips. Yokohama leads by 7 points.7
BangkokYokohama
Score5158
Protected land share 50 km %
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8367
Park area within 2 km42 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Yokohama leads by 1 points.1
BangkokYokohama
Score5758
Tourist attractions within 2 km3116
Park area within 2 km42 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km48
Sights concentration. Bangkok leads by 4 points.4
BangkokYokohama
Score4844
Notable places within 2 km6249
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 23 points.23
BangkokYokohama
Score9370
Price level global29.762.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Yokohama leads by 7 points.7
BangkokYokohama
Score5663
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm46 mm to 219 mm
Dry months30
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
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBangkokYokohama
SeoulICN, GMP
5 h 0 m
€175-251
BKK · 26 km
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 77 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
4 h 5 m
€176-184
BKK · 26 km
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
Hong KongHKG
2 h 40 m
€175-181
BKK · 26 km
4 h 10 m
€255-268
NRT · 77 km
OsakaKIX, ITM, UKB
5 h 35 m
€293-335
1 stop
BKK · 26 km
1 h 10 m
€106-119
HND · 18 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
4 h 35 m
€178-179
BKK · 26 km
3 h 10 m
€333-353
HND · 18 km
Ho Chi Minh CitySGN
1 h 30 m
€127-140
BKK · 26 km
5 h 45 m
€418-441
1 stop
HND · 18 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
2 h 20 m
€163-194
BKK · 26 km
6 h 55 m
€353-477
1 stop
HND · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
16 h 20 m
€646-679
1 stop
BKK · 26 km
11 h 0 m
€789-943
HND · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
DohaDOH
6 h 55 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
10 h 25 m
€931-1048
1 stop
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 2026-09 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

MeasureBangkokYokohama
Official languageThaiJapanese
CurrencyBaht (THB)Yen (JPY)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199Police 110, fire 119
Elevation2 m24 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokYokohama
City population5,676,6483,757,630
People per km²3,6198,585
Museums within 10 km5938
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre9166
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.