VacationSelector

Manchester or Yokohama?

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

Your match

Manchester
47
match

Wins on sights concentration with your weighting.

Yokohama
✓ Best match
61
match

Wins on good for families 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.

ManchesterYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Yokohama leads by 21 points.21
ManchesterYokohama
Score2849
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km102
Coast distance27 km1 km
Water distance27 km1 km
Places to eat. Yokohama leads by 10 points.10
ManchesterYokohama
Score6878
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8533,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3524
Museums & heritage. Yokohama leads by 11 points.11
ManchesterYokohama
Score4253
Museums within 10 km2357
Museums within 2 km of centre1131
Share of museums within 2 km %4854
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Yokohama leads by 12 points.12
ManchesterYokohama
Score6274
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0292,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre7921,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7764
Nightclubs within 4 km8233
Nature & day trips. Yokohama leads by 22 points.22
ManchesterYokohama
Score3658
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %9967
Park area within 2 km63 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Yokohama leads by 26 points.26
ManchesterYokohama
Score3258
Tourist attractions within 2 km516
Park area within 2 km63 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km28
Sights concentration. Manchester leads by 4 points.4
ManchesterYokohama
Score4844
Notable places within 2 km6149
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Yokohama leads by 16 points.16
ManchesterYokohama
Score5470
Price level global84.962.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Yokohama leads by 9 points.9
ManchesterYokohama
Score5463
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 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
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2
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. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromManchesterYokohama
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
Hong KongHKG
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
4 h 10 m
€255-268
NRT · 77 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
3 h 10 m
€333-353
HND · 18 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
6 h 10 m
€318-337
NRT · 77 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
13 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
6 h 55 m
€353-477
1 stop
HND · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
DohaDOH
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
10 h 25 m
€931-1048
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 2026-08 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

MeasureManchesterYokohama
Official languageEnglishJapanese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Yen (JPY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112 or 999Police 110, fire 119
Elevation38 m24 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterYokohama
City population547,6273,757,630
People per km²4,7378,585
Museums within 10 km2838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre6366
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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). 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. 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.