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The church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón, La Romana
La RomanaThe church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: La Romana by Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

La Romana 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 La Romana for

  • beaches

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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. La Romana 84, Yokohama 46: La Romana leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. La Romana 38, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. La Romana 24, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. La Romana 30, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Romana 62, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 4 points.
Day trips. La Romana 52, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 34 points.
Good for families. La Romana 56, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 30 points.
Getting around. La Romana 24, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 63 points.
Shopping & style. La Romana 28, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 32 points.
Affordability. La Romana 50, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Romana 17, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 39 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Romana 44, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Romana and Yokohama.

Your match

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

La Romana
42match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

La Romana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °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

La Romana's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Punta Cana.

La Romana 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. La Romana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (65.4 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa RomanaYokohama
Official languageSpanishJapanese
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation10 m24 m
Main airportCasa De Campo International Airport (LRM)7 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa RomanaYokohama
City population139,2383,757,630
People per km²5128,585
Museums within 10 km038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.