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Macau or Yokohama?

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

Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
Yokohama

Photo: Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped

Your match

Macau
46
match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

Yokohama
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families 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.

MacauYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Yokohama leads by 22 points.22
Food & drink. Macau leads by 5 points.5
Culture & sights. Macau leads by 7 points.7
Nightlife. Yokohama leads by 4 points.4
Nature & outdoors. Yokohama leads by 61 points.61
Day trips. Yokohama leads by 34 points.34
Good for families. Yokohama leads by 38 points.38
Getting around. Yokohama leads by 27 points.27
Shopping & style. Yokohama leads by 2 points.2
Affordability. Yokohama leads by 11 points.11
Live music & performing arts. Yokohama leads by 20 points.20
Wellness & relaxation. Yokohama leads by 20 points.20
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Macau and Yokohama.

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
JulyMacauYokohama
Daytime high32 °C28 °C
Night-time low26 °C22 °C
Rainfall in the month281 mm145 mm
Sunshine7 hours a day5 hours a day
Sea temperature29 °C24 °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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Daytime high, °C
Macau
19
19
22
25
29
31
32
32
31
29
25
20
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Macau
19
19
20
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Macau
34
42
78
160
285
369
281
338
233
71
38
32
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Macau
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Yokohama
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
Yokohama
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

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. Macau: 1991-2020 normals, Taipa (3.9 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromMacauYokohama
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 · 77 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
2 h 35 m
€180-240
MFM · 7 km
6 h 10 m
€318-337
NRT · 77 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 · 77 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 · 77 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
17 h 15 m
no fares
SZX · 57 km
13 h 55 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
Abu DhabiAUH
7 h 45 m
€690-962
2 stops
HKG · 41 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
NRT · 77 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

MeasureMacauYokohama
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 m24 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

MeasureMacauYokohama
City population682,1003,757,630
People per km²5,9168,585
Museums within 10 km2838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months5 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.