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A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
LisbonA yellow tram in a narrow street
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Lisbon by Riccardo Toso, Pexels License; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Lisbon 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 Lisbon for

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • families
  • wellness
  • 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. Lisbon 50, Yokohama 46: Lisbon leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Lisbon 75, Yokohama 72: Lisbon leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Lisbon 78, Yokohama 55: Lisbon leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Lisbon 75, Yokohama 44: Lisbon leads by 31 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lisbon 75, Yokohama 66: Lisbon leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Lisbon 82, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Lisbon 62, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Lisbon 66, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 21 points.
Shopping & style. Lisbon and Yokohama are level on 60.
Affordability. Lisbon and Yokohama are level on 55.
Live music & performing arts. Lisbon 60, Yokohama 56: Lisbon leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lisbon 36, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lisbon and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Lisbon
65match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights with your weighting.

Yokohama
64match

Wins on families and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Lisbon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
15 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

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLisbonYokohama
Official languagePortugueseJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation100 m24 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre156 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonYokohama
City population545,7963,757,630
People per km²5,4538,585
Museums within 10 km8038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.