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Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Nashville 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 Nashville for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • getting around
  • wellness
  • 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. Nashville 14, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Nashville 62, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Nashville 50, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Nashville 70, Yokohama 44: Nashville leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nashville 46, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Nashville 52, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Nashville 55, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 31 points.
Getting around. Nashville 30, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 57 points.
Shopping & style. Nashville 42, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Nashville 30, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nashville 82, Yokohama 56: Nashville leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nashville 20, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nashville and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Nashville
46match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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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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. Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNashvilleYokohama
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-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation182 m24 m
Main airportNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNashvilleYokohama
City population689,4473,757,630
People per km²5068,585
Museums within 10 km1238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.