VacationSelector

Berlin 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

Berlin
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Yokohama
61
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

BerlinYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Yokohama leads by 49 points.49
BerlinYokohama
Score049
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km172
Coast distance142 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Yokohama leads by 8 points.8
BerlinYokohama
Score7078
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1173,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3324
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 26 points.26
BerlinYokohama
Score7953
Museums within 10 km20057
Museums within 2 km of centre8131
Share of museums within 2 km %4154
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 2 points.2
BerlinYokohama
Score7674
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1142,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre7191,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3464
Nightclubs within 4 km13533
Nature & day trips. Yokohama leads by 9 points.9
BerlinYokohama
Score4958
Protected land share 50 km %20
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %10067
Park area within 2 km141 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 18 points.18
BerlinYokohama
Score7658
Tourist attractions within 2 km5416
Park area within 2 km141 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km58
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 40 points.40
BerlinYokohama
Score8444
Notable places within 2 km48649
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Yokohama leads by 10 points.10
BerlinYokohama
Score6070
Price level global75.962.4
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Yokohama leads by 3 points.3
BerlinYokohama
Score6063
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinYokohama
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€178-321
BER · 19 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 25 m
€149-251
BER · 19 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 km
3 h 10 m
€333-353
HND · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
DohaDOH
5 h 50 m
no fares
BER · 19 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBerlinYokohama
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
Elevation34 m24 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinYokohama
City population3,782,2023,757,630
People per km²4,2448,585
Museums within 10 km15838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8666
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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.

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.