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Painted wooden houses under palms in Key West, Key West
Key WestPainted wooden houses under palms in Key West
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Key West by Dominik Gryzbon, Pexels License; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Key West or Tokyo?

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 Key West for

  • beaches

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

Choose Tokyo for

  • shopping
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Tokyo’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. Key West 60, Tokyo 40: Key West leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Key West 45, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 53 points.
Culture & sights. Key West 40, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Key West 62, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Key West 62, Tokyo 68: Tokyo leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Key West 28, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 57 points.
Good for families. Key West 40, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 55 points.
Getting around. Key West 62, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Key West 30, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 69 points.
Affordability. Key West 15, Tokyo 48: Tokyo leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Key West 38, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Key West 40, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Key West and Tokyo.

Your match

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

Key West
44match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on shopping and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Key West in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
84 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °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

Key West's temperatures are measured 69 km from the centre, at Key West Airport.

Key West 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. Key West: 1991-2020 normals, Key West Airport (69.1 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKey WestTokyo
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-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation4 m6 m
Main airportKey West International Airport (EYW)2 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureKey WestTokyo
City population26,44414,264,798
People per km²1,4076,501
Museums within 10 km7192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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.