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The Royal Palace, Madrid
MadridThe Royal Palace
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Madrid by Mert Ocak, Pexels License; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Madrid or Yokohama?

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 Madrid for

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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. Madrid 5, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 41 points.
Food & drink. Madrid 80, Yokohama 72: Madrid leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Madrid 86, Yokohama 55: Madrid leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Madrid 85, Yokohama 44: Madrid leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. Madrid 60, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Madrid 89, Yokohama 86: Madrid leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Madrid 68, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Madrid 84, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Madrid 75, Yokohama 60: Madrid leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Madrid 50, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Madrid 77, Yokohama 56: Madrid leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Madrid 36, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Madrid and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Madrid
66match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights with your weighting.

Yokohama
64match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Madrid in July

33 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °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

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMadridYokohama
Official languageSpanishJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 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
Elevation663 m24 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre239 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridYokohama
City population3,506,7303,757,630
People per km²5,8018,585
Museums within 10 km8838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.

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.