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The white medina above the harbour walls, Essaouira
EssaouiraThe white medina above the harbour walls
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Essaouira by Manel Cusido, Pexels License; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Essaouira 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 Essaouira for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • beaches

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • day trips
  • families
  • nightlife

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. Essaouira 47, Yokohama 46: Essaouira leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Essaouira 44, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Essaouira 48, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Essaouira 14, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Essaouira 57, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Essaouira 17, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 69 points.
Good for families. Essaouira 42, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 44 points.
Getting around. Essaouira 58, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Essaouira 44, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Essaouira 74, Yokohama 55: Essaouira leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Essaouira 28, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Essaouira 66, Yokohama 60: Essaouira leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Essaouira and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Essaouira
45match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on day trips and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Essaouira in July

22 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 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

Essaouira has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Essaouira: 1991-2020 normals, Essaouira (1.4 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEssaouiraYokohama
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightJapanese
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15Police 110, fire 119
Elevation11 m24 m
Main airportEssaouira-Mogador Airport (ESU)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureEssaouiraYokohama
City population82,9623,757,630
People per km²16,5928,585
Museums within 10 km238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.