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The golden Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem
JerusalemThe golden Dome of the Rock
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Jerusalem by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Jerusalem 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 Jerusalem for

  • culture and sights

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • prices
  • families
  • 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. Jerusalem 40, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Jerusalem 66, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Jerusalem 92, Yokohama 55: Jerusalem leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Jerusalem 38, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Jerusalem 60, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Jerusalem 80, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Jerusalem 52, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Jerusalem 55, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Jerusalem 48, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Jerusalem 20, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Jerusalem 40, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Jerusalem 42, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Jerusalem and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Jerusalem
53match

Wins on culture and sights with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on prices 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.

Jerusalem in July

30 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °Csea
14 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

Jerusalem 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. Jerusalem: 1991-2020 normals, Jerusalem (1.8 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureJerusalemYokohama
Official languageHebrewJapanese
CurrencyNew Israeli Sheqel (ILS)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCHM230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 100, fire 102Police 110, fire 119
Elevation754 m24 m
Main airportBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)42 km from centre111 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureJerusalemYokohama
City population1,050,1513,757,630
People per km²8,3748,585
Museums within 10 km6938
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km71
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months5 months

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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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.