VacationSelector

Miami or Tokyo?

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

Your match

Miami
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Tokyo
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage 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.

MiamiTokyo
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 74 points.74
MiamiTokyo
Score9521
Swim season months124
Beaches 10 km201
Coast distance1 km5 km
Water distance1 km5 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 25 points.25
MiamiTokyo
Score6590
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8986,936
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2925
Museums & heritage. Tokyo leads by 43 points.43
MiamiTokyo
Score2366
Museums within 10 km28302
Museums within 2 km of centre652
Share of museums within 2 km %2117
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 45 points.45
MiamiTokyo
Score5095
Drinking venues within 4 km5386,895
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2873,033
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5344
Nightclubs within 4 km6358
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 14 points.14
MiamiTokyo
Score7258
Protected land share 50 km %16
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4885
Park area within 2 km50 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 27 points.27
MiamiTokyo
Score4471
Tourist attractions within 2 km1440
Park area within 2 km50 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km29
Sights concentration. Tokyo leads by 18 points.18
MiamiTokyo
Score4260
Notable places within 2 km45121
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tokyo leads by 27 points.27
MiamiTokyo
Score4370
Price level global10062.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 10 points.10
MiamiTokyo
Score7464
Monthly daytime high24.7 °C to 32.7 °C10 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 267 mm57 mm to 237 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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Sea temperature, °C
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Daylight, hours per day
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Miami
No sunshine record
Tokyo
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. Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMiamiTokyo
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 45 m
€205-247
MIA · 7 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€143-193
MIA · 7 km
12 h 35 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
2 h 30 m
€103-188
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 45 m
€144-205
MIA · 7 km
12 h 55 m
€966-988
1 stop
HND · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
5 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
11 h 0 m
€789-943
HND · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€202-362
MIA · 7 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 50 m
€97-175
MIA · 7 km
13 h 40 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
3 h 5 m
€278-290
MIA · 7 km
13 h 55 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
DohaDOH
15 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 7 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

MeasureMiamiTokyo
Official languageJapanese
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
Elevation2 m6 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiamiTokyo
City population442,24114,264,798
People per km²3,0466,501
Museums within 10 km17191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre39125
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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.