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The Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill, Halifax
HalifaxThe Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill
The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Halifax by Danieljmacdonald, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Halifax or Hiroshima?

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 Halifax for

  • live music and the arts
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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

Choose Hiroshima for

  • getting around
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Hiroshima’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. Halifax 32, Hiroshima 30: Halifax leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Halifax 50, Hiroshima 66: Hiroshima leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Halifax 42, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Halifax 46, Hiroshima 45: Halifax leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Halifax and Hiroshima are level on 62.
Day trips. Halifax 63, Hiroshima 80: Hiroshima leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Halifax 55, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Halifax 48, Hiroshima 74: Hiroshima leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Halifax 35, Hiroshima 52: Hiroshima leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Halifax 38, Hiroshima 58: Hiroshima leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Halifax 46, Hiroshima 38: Halifax leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Halifax 28, Hiroshima 50: Hiroshima leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Halifax and Hiroshima.

Your match

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

Halifax
45match

Wins on live music and the arts and beaches with your weighting.

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

Wins on getting around and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Halifax in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
101 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 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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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Halifax: 1991-2020 normals, Shearwater Airport (6 km from centre). Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHalifaxHiroshima
Official languageFrench, EnglishJapanese
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation28 m3 m
Main airportHalifax / Stanfield International Airport (YHZ)26 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureHalifaxHiroshima
City population440,0721,198,021
People per km²801,324
Museums within 10 km1518
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.