VacationSelector

Lucerne or Yokohama?

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

Your match

Lucerne
33
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Yokohama
✓ Best match
61
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

LucerneYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Yokohama leads by 49 points.49
LucerneYokohama
Score049
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km162
Coast distance669 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Yokohama leads by 31 points.31
LucerneYokohama
Score4778
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2693,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2524
Museums & heritage. Yokohama leads by 13 points.13
LucerneYokohama
Score4053
Museums within 10 km2357
Museums within 2 km of centre1331
Share of museums within 2 km %5754
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Yokohama leads by 46 points.46
LucerneYokohama
Score2874
Drinking venues within 4 km2022,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1511,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7564
Nightclubs within 4 km1133
Nature & day trips. Yokohama leads by 33 points.33
LucerneYokohama
Score2558
Protected land share 50 km %7
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10067
Park area within 2 km29 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Yokohama leads by 20 points.20
LucerneYokohama
Score3858
Tourist attractions within 2 km1516
Park area within 2 km29 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. Yokohama leads by 9 points.9
LucerneYokohama
Score3544
Notable places within 2 km2949
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Yokohama leads by 35 points.35
LucerneYokohama
Score3570
Price level global110.562.4
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Yokohama leads by 10 points.10
LucerneYokohama
Score5363
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 24.3 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall60 mm to 128 mm46 mm to 219 mm
Dry months00
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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Lucerne
No coastline within reach
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1
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. Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLucerneYokohama
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 77 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
6 h 10 m
€318-337
NRT · 77 km
Hong KongHKG
11 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
4 h 10 m
€255-268
NRT · 77 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
12 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
6 h 55 m
€353-477
1 stop
HND · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 49 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
HND · 18 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

MeasureLucerneYokohama
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshJapanese
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation436 m24 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLucerneYokohama
City population86,2343,757,630
People per km²2,9638,585
Museums within 10 km1438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4666
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.