VacationSelector

Malaga or Yokohama?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Malaga
59
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Yokohama
61
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

MalagaYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Malaga leads by 17 points.17
MalagaYokohama
Score6649
Swim season months35
Beaches 10 km212
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Yokohama leads by 9 points.9
MalagaYokohama
Score6978
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,0023,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3424
Museums & heritage. Malaga and Yokohama are level on 53.
MalagaYokohama
Score5353
Museums within 10 km4057
Museums within 2 km of centre3531
Share of museums within 2 km %8854
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Yokohama leads by 20 points.20
MalagaYokohama
Score5474
Drinking venues within 4 km7152,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4861,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6864
Nightclubs within 4 km4533
Nature & day trips. Yokohama leads by 15 points.15
MalagaYokohama
Score4358
Protected land share 50 km %7
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6367
Park area within 2 km85 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Yokohama leads by 5 points.5
MalagaYokohama
Score5358
Tourist attractions within 2 km3316
Park area within 2 km85 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Yokohama leads by 7 points.7
MalagaYokohama
Score3744
Notable places within 2 km3349
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Malaga leads by 1 points.1
MalagaYokohama
Score7170
Price level global60.862.4
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Malaga leads by 19 points.19
MalagaYokohama
Score8263
Monthly daytime high17.2 °C to 31.5 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 88 mm46 mm to 219 mm
Dry months50
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
Malaga
17
18
20
22
25
29
31
32
28
24
20
18
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Malaga
15
15
15
16
18
20
22
23
22
20
17
16
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Malaga
62
55
66
41
23
4
0
3
25
60
78
88
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Malaga
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Malaga
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
6
5
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. Malaga: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (8.2 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMalagaYokohama
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 9 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€92
AGP · 9 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 9 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
MadridMAD
1 h 10 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
HelsinkiHEL
4 h 35 m
€198-239
2 stops
AGP · 9 km
9 h 50 m
€1,071-1283
1 stop
HND · 18 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 35 m
€107-122
AGP · 9 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
4 h 15 m
€112-120
AGP · 9 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€124-199
1 stop
AGP · 9 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
DohaDOH
7 h 5 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
10 h 25 m
€931-1048
1 stop
HND · 18 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 25 m
no fares
AGP · 9 km
12 h 50 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

MeasureMalagaYokohama
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
Elevation18 m24 m
Main airportMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)9 km from centre165 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMalagaYokohama
City population599,0633,757,630
People per km²1,5178,585
Museums within 10 km3238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre6566
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months5 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.

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.