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A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Havana 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 Havana for

  • beaches
  • prices

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

Choose Tokyo for

  • shopping
  • families
  • getting around

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. Havana 64, Tokyo 40: Havana leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Havana 40, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 58 points.
Culture & sights. Havana 77, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Havana 60, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Havana 34, Tokyo 68: Tokyo leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Havana 38, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 47 points.
Good for families. Havana 34, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 61 points.
Getting around. Havana 38, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 60 points.
Shopping & style. Havana 30, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 69 points.
Affordability. Havana 58, Tokyo 48: Havana leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Havana 74, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Havana 22, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 56 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Havana and Tokyo.

Your match

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

Havana
47match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on shopping and families 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

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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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). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHavanaTokyo
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 m6 m
Main airportJosé Martí International Airport (HAV)17 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureHavanaTokyo
City population2,492,61814,264,798
People per km²3,4236,501
Museums within 10 km12192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Havana or Tokyo somewhere new.

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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. 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.