VacationSelector

Kuala Lumpur or Yokohama?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Kuala Lumpur
62
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Yokohama
61
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Kuala LumpurYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Yokohama leads by 9 points.9
Kuala LumpurYokohama
Score4049
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance38 km1 km
Water distance36 km1 km
Places to eat. Kuala Lumpur and Yokohama are level on 78.
Kuala LumpurYokohama
Score7878
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,3583,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2824
Museums & heritage. Yokohama leads by 2 points.2
Kuala LumpurYokohama
Score5153
Museums within 10 km4157
Museums within 2 km of centre2631
Share of museums within 2 km %6354
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Yokohama leads by 7 points.7
Kuala LumpurYokohama
Score6774
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3082,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre7351,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5664
Nightclubs within 4 km12633
Nature & day trips. Kuala Lumpur leads by 11 points.11
Kuala LumpurYokohama
Score6958
Protected land share 50 km %28
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %9767
Park area within 2 km70 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Kuala Lumpur leads by 2 points.2
Kuala LumpurYokohama
Score6058
Tourist attractions within 2 km2616
Park area within 2 km70 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km58
Sights concentration. Kuala Lumpur leads by 7 points.7
Kuala LumpurYokohama
Score5144
Notable places within 2 km7549
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kuala Lumpur leads by 22 points.22
Kuala LumpurYokohama
Score9270
Price level global30.662.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Yokohama leads by 11 points.11
Kuala LumpurYokohama
Score5263
Monthly daytime high31.9 °C to 33.7 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall145 mm to 360 mm46 mm to 219 mm
Dry months00
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Kuala Lumpur
33
33
34
34
34
33
33
33
33
33
32
32
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Kuala Lumpur
29
29
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
30
29
29
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Kuala Lumpur
227
197
270
296
232
145
169
178
215
284
360
281
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Kuala Lumpur
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Kuala Lumpur
No sunshine record
Yokohama
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kuala Lumpur: 1991-2020 normals, Sepang/KL International Airport (46.1 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKuala LumpurYokohama
SeoulICN, GMP
6 h 5 m
€251-273
KUL · 45 km
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 77 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
5 h 10 m
€203-227
KUL · 45 km
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
1 h 0 m
€89-104
KUL · 45 km
6 h 55 m
€353-477
1 stop
HND · 18 km
Hong KongHKG
3 h 40 m
€193-209
KUL · 45 km
4 h 10 m
€255-268
NRT · 77 km
OsakaKIX, ITM, UKB
6 h 30 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
1 h 10 m
€106-119
HND · 18 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
5 h 50 m
€215-226
1 stop
KUL · 45 km
3 h 10 m
€333-353
HND · 18 km
ManilaMNL
3 h 35 m
€163-193
KUL · 45 km
4 h 15 m
€307-323
NRT · 77 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
2 h 5 m
€143-157
KUL · 45 km
6 h 10 m
€318-337
NRT · 77 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 10 m
€471-602
KUL · 45 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
DohaDOH
7 h 35 m
no fares
KUL · 45 km
10 h 25 m
€931-1048
1 stop
HND · 18 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureKuala LumpurYokohama
Official languageMalayJapanese
CurrencyMalaysian Ringgit (MYR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+9
Emergency number999Police 110, fire 119
Elevation50 m24 m
Main airportKuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL)45 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days

By the numbers

MeasureKuala LumpurYokohama
City population9,000,2803,757,630
People per km²36,9328,585
Museums within 10 km2538
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre6966
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.