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Main Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower, Laguna Beach
Laguna BeachMain Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Laguna Beach by Mark Stebnicki, Pexels License; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Laguna Beach 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 Laguna Beach for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • getting around
  • prices
  • 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. Laguna Beach 72, Yokohama 46: Laguna Beach leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Laguna Beach 40, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Laguna Beach 27, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Laguna Beach 18, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Laguna Beach 73, Yokohama 66: Laguna Beach leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Laguna Beach 72, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Laguna Beach 68, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Laguna Beach 33, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 54 points.
Shopping & style. Laguna Beach 46, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Laguna Beach 12, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Laguna Beach 40, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Laguna Beach 47, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Laguna Beach and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Laguna Beach
46match

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

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around 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.

Laguna Beach in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °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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Laguna BeachYokohama

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. Laguna Beach: 1981-2010 normals, Irvine (15.5 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLaguna BeachYokohama
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-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation6 m24 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)18 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLaguna BeachYokohama
City population23,0323,757,630
People per km²9078,585
Museums within 10 km238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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). 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.