VacationSelector

Dubai or Yokohama?

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

Your match

Dubai
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Yokohama
✓ Best match
61
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

DubaiYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 51 points.51
DubaiYokohama
Score10049
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km522
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Yokohama leads by 12 points.12
DubaiYokohama
Score6678
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0863,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2624
Museums & heritage. Yokohama leads by 15 points.15
DubaiYokohama
Score3853
Museums within 10 km2657
Museums within 2 km of centre1831
Share of museums within 2 km %6954
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Yokohama leads by 21 points.21
DubaiYokohama
Score5374
Drinking venues within 4 km6012,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3061,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5164
Nightclubs within 4 km8433
Nature & day trips. Yokohama leads by 40 points.40
DubaiYokohama
Score1858
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5267
Park area within 2 km13 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Yokohama leads by 9 points.9
DubaiYokohama
Score4958
Tourist attractions within 2 km3716
Park area within 2 km13 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km48
Sights concentration. Yokohama leads by 7 points.7
DubaiYokohama
Score3744
Notable places within 2 km3349
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Yokohama leads by 1 points.1
DubaiYokohama
Score6970
Price level global63.462.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Dubai leads by 3 points.3
DubaiYokohama
Score6663
Monthly daytime high24.5 °C to 42.1 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 21 mm46 mm to 219 mm
Dry months120
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
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubai
No sunshine record
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. Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubaiYokohama
SeoulICN, GMP
8 h 35 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 77 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
8 h 15 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 15 m
€175-294
DXB · 7 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
New DelhiDEL
3 h 15 m
€247-331
DXB · 7 km
7 h 35 m
€543-568
1 stop
HND · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€226-241
DXB · 7 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
Hong KongHKG
7 h 40 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
4 h 10 m
€255-268
NRT · 77 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 35 m
€476-487
DXB · 7 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
16 h 25 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
11 h 0 m
€789-943
HND · 18 km
DohaDOH
1 h 5 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
10 h 25 m
€931-1048
1 stop
HND · 18 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
17 h 30 m
no fares
DXB · 7 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

MeasureDubaiYokohama
Official languageArabicJapanese
CurrencyUAE Dirham (AED)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCG220 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation0 m24 m
Main airportDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubaiYokohama
City population3,944,7513,757,630
People per km²8,585
Museums within 10 km1438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre5266
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.