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The skyline and yachts on the canals, Fort Lauderdale
Fort LauderdaleThe skyline and yachts on the canals
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Fort Lauderdale by KeanoManu, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Fort Lauderdale 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 Fort Lauderdale for

  • beaches
  • nightlife

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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. Fort Lauderdale 88, Yokohama 46: Fort Lauderdale leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Fort Lauderdale 47, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Fort Lauderdale 28, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Fort Lauderdale 52, Yokohama 44: Fort Lauderdale leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fort Lauderdale 62, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Fort Lauderdale 58, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Fort Lauderdale 66, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Fort Lauderdale 32, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 55 points.
Shopping & style. Fort Lauderdale 52, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Fort Lauderdale 32, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fort Lauderdale 42, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fort Lauderdale 40, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fort Lauderdale and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Fort Lauderdale
50match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Fort Lauderdale in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
166 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °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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Fort LauderdaleYokohama

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. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFort LauderdaleYokohama
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation11 m24 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleYokohama
City population182,7603,757,630
People per km²1,8298,585
Museums within 10 km638
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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). 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. 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.