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The beach with its parasols and the boardwalk, Bethany Beach
Bethany BeachThe beach with its parasols and the boardwalk
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Bethany Beach by Doug Olson, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Bethany Beach 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 Bethany Beach for

  • beaches

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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. Bethany Beach 72, Yokohama 46: Bethany Beach leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Bethany Beach 35, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 37 points.
Culture & sights. Bethany Beach 10, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. Bethany Beach 12, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bethany Beach 48, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Bethany Beach 45, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Bethany Beach 66, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Bethany Beach 33, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 54 points.
Shopping & style. Bethany Beach 28, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Bethany Beach 30, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bethany Beach 14, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bethany Beach 33, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 27 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bethany Beach and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Bethany Beach
36match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bethany Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
95 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
23 °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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Bethany BeachYokohama

Where the figures come from

Bethany Beach's temperatures are measured 45 km from the centre, at Salisbury / Quail Ridge.

Bethany Beach has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

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

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bethany Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Salisbury / Quail Ridge (44.9 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBethany BeachYokohama
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation3 m24 m
Main airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)45 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBethany BeachYokohama
City population9543,757,630
People per km²3188,585
Museums within 10 km038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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). 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.