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The Fisherman's Bastion, Budapest
BudapestThe Fisherman's Bastion
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Budapest by Perituss, CC0; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Budapest 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 Budapest for

  • wellness
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • families
  • beaches
  • 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. Budapest 25, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 21 points.
Food & drink. Budapest 63, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Budapest 80, Yokohama 55: Budapest leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Budapest 78, Yokohama 44: Budapest leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Budapest 58, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Budapest 68, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Budapest 62, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Budapest 78, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Budapest 55, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Budapest 62, Yokohama 55: Budapest leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Budapest 76, Yokohama 56: Budapest leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Budapest 98, Yokohama 60: Budapest leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Budapest and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Budapest
Best match
67match

Wins on wellness and nightlife with your weighting.

Yokohama
64match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Budapest in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
10 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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBudapestYokohama
Official languageHungarianJapanese
CurrencyForint (HUF)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
Elevation117 m24 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre157 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestYokohama
City population1,675,7773,757,630
People per km²3,1918,585
Museums within 10 km8138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

Where else could you go?

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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.