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The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima
The church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón, La Romana
La RomanaThe church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón

Photos: Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License; La Romana by Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Hiroshima or La Romana?

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 Hiroshima for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose La Romana for

  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on La Romana’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. Hiroshima 30, La Romana 84: La Romana leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Hiroshima 66, La Romana 38: Hiroshima leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Hiroshima 60, La Romana 24: Hiroshima leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Hiroshima 45, La Romana 30: Hiroshima leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hiroshima and La Romana are level on 62.
Day trips. Hiroshima 80, La Romana 52: Hiroshima leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Hiroshima 60, La Romana 56: Hiroshima leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Hiroshima 74, La Romana 24: Hiroshima leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. Hiroshima 52, La Romana 28: Hiroshima leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Hiroshima 58, La Romana 50: Hiroshima leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hiroshima 38, La Romana 17: Hiroshima leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hiroshima 50, La Romana 44: Hiroshima leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hiroshima and La Romana.

Your match

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

Hiroshima
Best match
56match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

La Romana
42match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

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

La Romana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

La Romana's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Punta Cana.

La Romana 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. Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre). La Romana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (65.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHiroshimaLa Romana
Official languageJapaneseSpanish
CurrencyYen (JPY)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC-4
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation3 m10 m
Main airportHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsCasa De Campo International Airport (LRM)7 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHiroshimaLa Romana
City population1,198,021139,238
People per km²1,324512
Museums within 10 km180
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.