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The red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji, Fukuoka
FukuokaThe red five-storey pagoda of Tocho-ji
The Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock, Petra
PetraThe Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock

Photos: Fukuoka by Nick-D, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Petra by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License.

Fukuoka or Petra?

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 Fukuoka for

  • food and drink
  • getting around
  • nightlife

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

Choose Petra for

  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Petra’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. Fukuoka 50, Petra 5: Fukuoka leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Fukuoka 82, Petra 22: Fukuoka leads by 60 points.
Culture & sights. Fukuoka 50, Petra 85: Petra leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Fukuoka 60, Petra 5: Fukuoka leads by 55 points.
Nature & outdoors. Fukuoka 62, Petra 78: Petra leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Fukuoka 84, Petra 30: Fukuoka leads by 54 points.
Good for families. Fukuoka 78, Petra 25: Fukuoka leads by 53 points.
Getting around. Fukuoka 82, Petra 25: Fukuoka leads by 57 points.
Shopping & style. Fukuoka 65, Petra 18: Fukuoka leads by 47 points.
Affordability. Fukuoka 58, Petra 45: Fukuoka leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Fukuoka 45, Petra 10: Fukuoka leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Fukuoka 60, Petra 28: Fukuoka leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Fukuoka and Petra.

Your match

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

Fukuoka
Best match
65match

Wins on food and drink and getting around with your weighting.

Petra
31match

Wins on culture and sights and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Fukuoka in July

31 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
301 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Petra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Petra's temperatures are measured 34 km from the centre, at Ma'An.

Petra's station stands 219 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Petra 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Fukuoka: 1991-2020 normals, Fukuoka (1.9 km from centre). Petra: 1991-2020 normals, Ma'An (33.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFukuokaPetra
Official languageJapaneseArabic
CurrencyYen (JPY)Jordanian Dinar (JOD)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionBCFGJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+3
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation8 m850 m
Main airportFukuoka Airport (FUK)5 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsKing Hussein International Airport (AQJ)90 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days-

By the numbers

MeasureFukuokaPetra
City population1,603,043-
People per km²4,715-
Museums within 10 km232
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.