VacationSelector

Ghent or Yokohama?

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

Your match

Ghent
50
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Yokohama
✓ Best match
61
match

Wins on nightlife and nature & day trips 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.

GhentYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Yokohama leads by 23 points.23
GhentYokohama
Score2649
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km82
Coast distance32 km1 km
Water distance32 km1 km
Places to eat. Yokohama leads by 8 points.8
GhentYokohama
Score7078
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7643,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4924
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 5 points.5
GhentYokohama
Score5853
Museums within 10 km2457
Museums within 2 km of centre2031
Share of museums within 2 km %8354
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Yokohama leads by 25 points.25
GhentYokohama
Score4974
Drinking venues within 4 km5702,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4461,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7864
Nightclubs within 4 km2633
Nature & day trips. Yokohama leads by 24 points.24
GhentYokohama
Score3458
Protected land share 50 km %7—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %8767
Park area within 2 km84 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Yokohama leads by 8 points.8
GhentYokohama
Score5058
Tourist attractions within 2 km1916
Park area within 2 km84 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. Ghent leads by 2 points.2
GhentYokohama
Score4644
Notable places within 2 km5549
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Yokohama leads by 10 points.10
GhentYokohama
Score6070
Price level global76.262.4
Daily budget€180—
Year-round weather. Yokohama leads by 7 points.7
GhentYokohama
Score5663
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm46 mm to 219 mm
Dry months10
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
2
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. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentYokohama
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 56 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 15 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 56 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
3 h 10 m
€333-353
HND · 18 km
Hong KongHKG
11 h 40 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
4 h 10 m
€255-268
NRT · 77 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
DohaDOH
6 h 25 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
10 h 25 m
€931-1048
1 stop
HND · 18 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

MeasureGhentYokohama
Official languageFrench, German, DutchJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE230 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
Elevation12 m24 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentYokohama
City population272,6573,757,630
People per km²1,7288,585
Museums within 10 km3038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre8366
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.