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The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima
Palms on a white beach at Cap Cana, Punta Cana
Punta CanaPalms on a white beach at Cap Cana

Photos: Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License; Punta Cana by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, CC0.

Hiroshima or Punta Cana?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Punta Cana for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Punta Cana’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, Punta Cana 94: Punta Cana leads by 64 points.
Food & drink. Hiroshima 66, Punta Cana 30: Hiroshima leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Hiroshima 60, Punta Cana 8: Hiroshima leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Hiroshima 45, Punta Cana 40: Hiroshima leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hiroshima 62, Punta Cana 52: Hiroshima leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Hiroshima 80, Punta Cana 35: Hiroshima leads by 45 points.
Good for families. Hiroshima 60, Punta Cana 68: Punta Cana leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Hiroshima 74, Punta Cana 15: Hiroshima leads by 59 points.
Shopping & style. Hiroshima 52, Punta Cana 30: Hiroshima leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Hiroshima 58, Punta Cana 44: Hiroshima leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hiroshima 38, Punta Cana 15: Hiroshima leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hiroshima 50, Punta Cana 52: Punta Cana leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hiroshima and Punta Cana.

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.

Punta Cana
40match

Wins on beaches 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.

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

Punta Cana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
96 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

Punta Cana 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). Punta Cana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHiroshimaPunta Cana
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 m28 m
Main airportHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinationsPunta Cana International Airport (PUJ)1 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHiroshimaPunta Cana
City population1,198,021138,919
People per km²1,324292
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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.