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The Sagrada Família, Barcelona
BarcelonaThe Sagrada Família
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Barcelona by Canaan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Barcelona 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 Barcelona for

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • beaches

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • wellness
  • prices
  • families

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. Barcelona 75, Yokohama 46: Barcelona leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. Barcelona 82, Yokohama 72: Barcelona leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Barcelona 86, Yokohama 55: Barcelona leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Barcelona 82, Yokohama 44: Barcelona leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Barcelona 72, Yokohama 66: Barcelona leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Barcelona 80, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Barcelona 76, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Barcelona 80, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Barcelona 75, Yokohama 60: Barcelona leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Barcelona 44, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Barcelona 70, Yokohama 56: Barcelona leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Barcelona 38, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Barcelona and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Barcelona
Best match
72match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights with your weighting.

Yokohama
64match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Barcelona in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarcelonaYokohama
Official languageSpanishJapanese
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
Elevation9 m24 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre235 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaYokohama
City population1,731,6493,757,630
People per km²17,0948,585
Museums within 10 km9538
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months5 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. 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.

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.