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Macau or Tokyo?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline, Macau
Macau

Photo: tian Jin, Pexels License

Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
Tokyo

Photo: Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

Your match

Macau
46
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Tokyo
✓ Best match
80
match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

MacauTokyo
Beaches & swimming. Tokyo leads by 16 points.16
Food & drink. Tokyo leads by 21 points.21
Culture & sights. Tokyo leads by 22 points.22
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 46 points.46
Nature & outdoors. Tokyo leads by 63 points.63
Day trips. Tokyo leads by 33 points.33
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 47 points.47
Getting around. Tokyo leads by 38 points.38
Shopping & style. Tokyo leads by 41 points.41
Affordability. Tokyo leads by 4 points.4
Live music & performing arts. Tokyo leads by 50 points.50
Wellness & relaxation. Tokyo leads by 38 points.38
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Macau and Tokyo.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyMacauTokyo
Daytime high32 °C30 °C
Night-time low26 °C23 °C
Rainfall in the month281 mm157 mm
Sunshine7 hours a day5 hours a day
Sea temperature29 °C23 °C
Daylight13 hours a day14 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Macau
19
19
22
25
29
31
32
32
31
29
25
20
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Sea temperature, °C
Macau
19
19
20
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Macau
34
42
78
160
285
369
281
338
233
71
38
32
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Daylight, hours per day
Macau
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Macau
4
3
3
3
4
5
7
6
6
6
5
5
Tokyo
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Macau: 1991-2020 normals, Taipa (3.9 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromMacauTokyo
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€159-193
MFM · 7 km
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 10 m
no fares
MFM · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 56 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
2 h 35 m
€180-240
MFM · 7 km
6 h 10 m
€318-337
NRT · 56 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
14 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
11 h 0 m
€789-943
HND · 18 km
ManilaMNL
2 h 0 m
€125-142
MFM · 7 km
4 h 15 m
€307-323
NRT · 56 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
3 h 0 m
€181-203
1 stop
MFM · 7 km
3 h 10 m
€333-353
HND · 18 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
3 h 40 m
no fares
MFM · 7 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
17 h 15 m
no fares
SZX · 57 km
13 h 55 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
Abu DhabiAUH
7 h 45 m
€690-962
2 stops
HKG · 41 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 41 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
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 2026-10 to 2026-12, 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

MeasureMacauTokyo
Official languagePortuguese, Cantonese, Standard ChineseJapanese
CurrencyPataca (MOP)Yen (JPY)
SocketsFGM220 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+9
Emergency number999Police 110, fire 119
Elevation22 m6 m
Main airportMacau International Airport (MFM)7 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMacauTokyo
City population682,10014,264,798
People per km²5,9166,501
Museums within 10 km28191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.