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A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio
The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Havana 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 Havana for

  • live music and the arts
  • beaches
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Hiroshima for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Havana 64, Hiroshima 30: Havana leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Havana 40, Hiroshima 66: Hiroshima leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Havana 77, Hiroshima 60: Havana leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Havana 60, Hiroshima 45: Havana leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Havana 34, Hiroshima 62: Hiroshima leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Havana 38, Hiroshima 80: Hiroshima leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Havana 34, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Havana 38, Hiroshima 74: Hiroshima leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Havana 30, Hiroshima 52: Hiroshima leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Havana and Hiroshima are level on 58.
Live music & performing arts. Havana 74, Hiroshima 38: Havana leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Havana 22, Hiroshima 50: Hiroshima leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Havana and Hiroshima.

Your match

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

Havana
47match

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

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

Wins on day trips 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.

Havana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
118 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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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Where the figures come from

Havana 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. Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre). Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHavanaHiroshima
Official languageSpanishJapanese
CurrencyCuban Peso (CUP)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 106, ambulance 104, fire 105Police 110, fire 119
Elevation59 m3 m
Main airportJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureHavanaHiroshima
City population2,492,6181,198,021
People per km²3,4231,324
Museums within 10 km1218
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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). 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.