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Palms on Waikiki Beach, Honolulu
HonoluluPalms on Waikiki Beach
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Honolulu by Jess Loiterton, Pexels License; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Honolulu 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 Honolulu for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • day trips
  • prices
  • getting around

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. Honolulu 91, Yokohama 46: Honolulu leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Honolulu 70, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Honolulu and Yokohama are level on 55.
Nightlife. Honolulu 45, Yokohama 44: Honolulu leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Honolulu 88, Yokohama 66: Honolulu leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Honolulu 38, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 48 points.
Good for families. Honolulu 80, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Honolulu 52, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Honolulu and Yokohama are level on 60.
Affordability. Honolulu 15, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Honolulu 40, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Honolulu 50, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Honolulu and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Honolulu
57match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on day trips and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Honolulu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °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

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

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Honolulu: 1991-2020 normals, Honolulu International Airport (10.1 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHonoluluYokohama
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-10UTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation12 m24 m
Main airportDaniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureHonoluluYokohama
City population350,9643,757,630
People per km²1,9818,585
Museums within 10 km1238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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). 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.