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A bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay, Montego Bay
Montego BayA bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Montego Bay 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 Montego Bay for

  • beaches

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • getting around
  • families
  • day trips

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. Montego Bay 84, Yokohama 46: Montego Bay leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Montego Bay 50, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Montego Bay 28, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Montego Bay 42, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montego Bay 65, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Montego Bay 50, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Montego Bay 48, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Montego Bay 20, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 67 points.
Shopping & style. Montego Bay 25, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Montego Bay 38, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montego Bay 32, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montego Bay 45, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montego Bay and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Montego Bay
44match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Montego Bay in July

34 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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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Montego BayYokohama

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. Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontego BayYokohama
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisJapanese
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110Police 110, fire 119
Elevation19 m24 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontego BayYokohama
City population123,9943,757,630
People per km²-8,585
Museums within 10 km038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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). 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.

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.