VacationSelector

London or Yokohama?

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

Your match

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

Yokohama
61
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

LondonYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Yokohama leads by 49 points.49
LondonYokohama
Score049
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km472
Coast distance43 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. London leads by 10 points.10
LondonYokohama
Score8878
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,3173,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4024
Museums & heritage. London leads by 19 points.19
LondonYokohama
Score7253
Museums within 10 km14857
Museums within 2 km of centre4931
Share of museums within 2 km %3354
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. London leads by 21 points.21
LondonYokohama
Score9574
Drinking venues within 4 km5,3272,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,4431,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4664
Nightclubs within 4 km31233
Nature & day trips. Yokohama leads by 18 points.18
LondonYokohama
Score4058
Protected land share 50 km %16
Landscape blanket share 50 km %140
Land share of disc %9767
Park area within 2 km84 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 17 points.17
LondonYokohama
Score7558
Tourist attractions within 2 km8516
Park area within 2 km84 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km38
Sights concentration. London leads by 45 points.45
LondonYokohama
Score8944
Notable places within 2 km64949
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Yokohama leads by 16 points.16
LondonYokohama
Score5470
Price level global84.962.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. London and Yokohama are level on 63.
LondonYokohama
Score6363
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm46 mm to 219 mm
Dry months10
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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
London
No coastline within reach
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLondonYokohama
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 5 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 77 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 30 m
€665-831
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
Hong KongHKG
12 h 0 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
4 h 10 m
€255-268
NRT · 77 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 0 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
11 h 0 m
€789-943
HND · 18 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 55 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
6 h 10 m
€318-337
NRT · 77 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 15 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
3 h 10 m
€333-353
HND · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
DohaDOH
6 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
10 h 25 m
€931-1048
1 stop
HND · 18 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
11 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
13 h 55 m
no fares
NRT · 77 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 2026-08 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

MeasureLondonYokohama
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
Elevation4 m24 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonYokohama
City population8,799,7283,757,630
People per km²5,5988,585
Museums within 10 km21538
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre11666
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.