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The Atomium, Brussels
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Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
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Photos: Brussels by Ettanghe, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Brussels 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 Brussels for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • 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. Brussels 18, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Brussels and Yokohama are level on 72.
Culture & sights. Brussels 74, Yokohama 55: Brussels leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Brussels 60, Yokohama 44: Brussels leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Brussels 45, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Brussels 89, Yokohama 86: Brussels leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Brussels 60, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Brussels 72, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Brussels 62, Yokohama 60: Brussels leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Brussels 40, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Brussels 68, Yokohama 56: Brussels leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Brussels 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: Brussels and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Brussels
58match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Brussels in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBrusselsYokohama
Official languageFrench, German, DutchJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE230 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
Elevation70 m24 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrusselsYokohama
City population195,5463,757,630
People per km²5,9088,585
Museums within 10 km10638
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km101
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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.

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.