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The Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill, Halifax
HalifaxThe Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Halifax by Danieljmacdonald, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Halifax or Tokyo?

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

Halifax does not lead in any category we score.

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

Choose Tokyo for

  • shopping
  • getting around
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Tokyo’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, Tokyo 40: Tokyo leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Halifax 50, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Halifax 42, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Halifax 46, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Halifax 62, Tokyo 68: Tokyo leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Halifax 63, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Halifax 55, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Halifax 48, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. Halifax 35, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 64 points.
Affordability. Halifax 38, Tokyo 48: Tokyo leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Halifax 46, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Halifax 28, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 50 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Halifax and Tokyo.

Your match

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

Halifax
45match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on shopping and getting around 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

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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HalifaxTokyo

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Halifax: 1991-2020 normals, Shearwater Airport (6 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHalifaxTokyo
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 m6 m
Main airportHalifax / Stanfield International Airport (YHZ)26 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureHalifaxTokyo
City population440,07214,264,798
People per km²806,501
Museums within 10 km15192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.