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A classic car in front of the Capitolio, Havana
HavanaA classic car in front of the Capitolio
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Havana by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Havana or Yokohama?

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

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

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • families
  • getting around
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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, Yokohama 46: Havana leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Havana 40, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Havana 77, Yokohama 55: Havana leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Havana 60, Yokohama 44: Havana leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Havana 34, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Havana 38, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 48 points.
Good for families. Havana 34, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 52 points.
Getting around. Havana 38, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 49 points.
Shopping & style. Havana 30, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Havana 58, Yokohama 55: Havana leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Havana 74, Yokohama 56: Havana leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Havana 22, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Havana and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Havana
47match

Wins on culture and sights and beaches with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on families 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

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 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.

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Havana: 1991-2020 normals, Casa Blanca, La Habana (3.5 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHavanaYokohama
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 m24 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

MeasureHavanaYokohama
City population2,492,6183,757,630
People per km²3,4238,585
Museums within 10 km1238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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. 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.