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The Three Graces at Pier Head, Liverpool
LiverpoolThe Three Graces at Pier Head
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Liverpool by Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Liverpool 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 Liverpool for

  • prices

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

Choose Tokyo for

  • wellness
  • food and drink
  • shopping

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. Liverpool 22, Tokyo 40: Tokyo leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Liverpool 48, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 50 points.
Culture & sights. Liverpool 64, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Liverpool 66, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Liverpool 52, Tokyo 68: Tokyo leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Liverpool 64, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Liverpool 55, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Liverpool 68, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Liverpool 52, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 47 points.
Affordability. Liverpool 50, Tokyo 48: Liverpool leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Liverpool 66, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Liverpool 22, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 56 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Liverpool and Tokyo.

Your match

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

Liverpool
52match

Wins on prices with your weighting.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on wellness and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Liverpool in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 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

Liverpool's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Manchester Airport.

Liverpool 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. Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLiverpoolTokyo
Official languageEnglishJapanese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Yen (JPY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112 or 999Police 110, fire 119
Elevation70 m6 m
Main airportLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLiverpoolTokyo
City population513,44114,264,798
People per km²4,5926,501
Museums within 10 km31192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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.