VacationSelector

Boston or Yokohama?

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

Your match

Boston
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Yokohama
✓ Best match
61
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife 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.

BostonYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Boston leads by 11 points.11
BostonYokohama
Score6049
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km682
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Yokohama leads by 5 points.5
BostonYokohama
Score7378
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4523,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3224
Museums & heritage. Yokohama leads by 10 points.10
BostonYokohama
Score4353
Museums within 10 km7957
Museums within 2 km of centre2731
Share of museums within 2 km %3454
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Yokohama leads by 16 points.16
BostonYokohama
Score5874
Drinking venues within 4 km8862,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5131,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5864
Nightclubs within 4 km4333
Nature & day trips. Yokohama leads by 5 points.5
BostonYokohama
Score5358
Protected land share 50 km %12
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7767
Park area within 2 km116 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Yokohama leads by 5 points.5
BostonYokohama
Score5358
Tourist attractions within 2 km2816
Park area within 2 km116 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 14 points.14
BostonYokohama
Score5844
Notable places within 2 km11149
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Yokohama leads by 27 points.27
BostonYokohama
Score4370
Price level global10062.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Yokohama leads by 7 points.7
BostonYokohama
Score5663
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 mm46 mm to 219 mm
Dry months00
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
Boston
3
4
8
14
19
25
28
27
23
17
11
6
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4
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. Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBostonYokohama
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
13 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 77 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
5 h 35 m
€289-344
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
11 h 0 m
€789-943
HND · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 20 m
€176-196
BOS · 4 km
12 h 35 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
San FranciscoSFO
5 h 45 m
€341-440
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
10 h 25 m
€755-991
1 stop
HND · 18 km
Hong KongHKG
15 h 45 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
4 h 10 m
€255-268
NRT · 77 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
13 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
3 h 10 m
€333-353
HND · 18 km
DohaDOH
13 h 0 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
10 h 25 m
€931-1048
1 stop
HND · 18 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
5 h 0 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
13 h 55 m
no fares
NRT · 77 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

MeasureBostonYokohama
Official languageJapanese
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
Elevation43 m24 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonYokohama
City population675,6473,757,630
People per km²2,9108,585
Museums within 10 km5138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre7466
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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). 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. 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.