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The CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei, Bucharest
BucharestThe CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Bucharest by Jorge Láscar, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Bucharest 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 Bucharest for

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • day trips

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. Bucharest 8, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Bucharest 55, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Bucharest 58, Yokohama 55: Bucharest leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Bucharest 70, Yokohama 44: Bucharest leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bucharest 45, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Bucharest 52, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Bucharest 52, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Bucharest 52, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Bucharest 45, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Bucharest 70, Yokohama 55: Bucharest leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bucharest 60, Yokohama 56: Bucharest leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bucharest 47, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bucharest and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Bucharest
51match

Wins on nightlife and prices with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bucharest in July

30 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
68 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBucharestYokohama
Official languageRomanianJapanese
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation70 m24 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre121 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestYokohama
City population1,716,9613,757,630
People per km²7,5978,585
Museums within 10 km4138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.