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A purple lifeguard tower on South Beach, Miami Beach
Miami BeachA purple lifeguard tower on South Beach
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Miami Beach by Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Miami Beach or Tokyo?

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 Miami Beach for

  • beaches

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

Choose Tokyo for

  • shopping
  • getting around
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Tokyo’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. Miami Beach 92, Tokyo 40: Miami Beach leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Miami Beach 62, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Miami Beach 52, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Miami Beach 80, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Miami Beach 52, Tokyo 68: Tokyo leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Miami Beach 55, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Miami Beach 60, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Miami Beach 58, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Miami Beach 55, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 44 points.
Affordability. Miami Beach 20, Tokyo 48: Tokyo leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Miami Beach 55, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Miami Beach 48, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Miami Beach and Tokyo.

Your match

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

Miami Beach
57match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on shopping and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Miami Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
186 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Miami BeachTokyo

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Miami Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (18.8 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMiami BeachTokyo
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation1 m6 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)16 km from centre198 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiami BeachTokyo
City population82,89014,264,798
People per km²2,1096,501
Museums within 10 km14192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.