VacationSelector

Hamburg or Tokyo?

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

Your match

Hamburg
53
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Tokyo
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming 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.

HamburgTokyo
Beaches & swimming. Tokyo leads by 21 points.21
HamburgTokyo
Score021
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km161
Coast distance22 km5 km
Water distance5 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 17 points.17
HamburgTokyo
Score7390
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1506,936
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3825
Museums & heritage. Tokyo leads by 6 points.6
HamburgTokyo
Score6066
Museums within 10 km94302
Museums within 2 km of centre5052
Share of museums within 2 km %5317
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 27 points.27
HamburgTokyo
Score6895
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3396,895
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre8343,033
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6244
Nightclubs within 4 km11958
Nature & day trips. Tokyo leads by 18 points.18
HamburgTokyo
Score4058
Protected land share 50 km %14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %9985
Park area within 2 km89 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 11 points.11
HamburgTokyo
Score6071
Tourist attractions within 2 km4040
Park area within 2 km89 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km19
Sights concentration. Tokyo leads by 1 points.1
HamburgTokyo
Score5960
Notable places within 2 km118121
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tokyo leads by 10 points.10
HamburgTokyo
Score6070
Price level global75.962.4
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Tokyo leads by 9 points.9
HamburgTokyo
Score5564
Monthly daytime high4.3 °C to 23.2 °C10 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 82 mm57 mm to 237 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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Sea temperature, °C
Hamburg
No coastline within reach
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Daylight, hours per day
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
2
1
Tokyo
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. Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHamburgTokyo
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 30 m
€216-237
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€167-214
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€357-416
HAM · 9 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€337-378
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 0 m
€183-188
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
9 h 50 m
€1,071-1283
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

MeasureHamburgTokyo
Official languageGermanJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 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
Elevation6 m6 m
Main airportHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureHamburgTokyo
City population1,910,16014,264,798
People per km²2,5306,501
Museums within 10 km77191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre83125
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.