VacationSelector

New York or Yokohama?

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

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

Yokohama
61
match

Wins on value for money 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.

New YorkYokohama
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 15 points.15
New YorkYokohama
Score6449
Swim season months35
Beaches 10 km172
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 17 points.17
New YorkYokohama
Score9578
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,0323,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3824
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 7 points.7
New YorkYokohama
Score6053
Museums within 10 km11957
Museums within 2 km of centre3131
Share of museums within 2 km %2654
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. New York leads by 15 points.15
New YorkYokohama
Score8974
Drinking venues within 4 km4,1592,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,0151,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4864
Nightclubs within 4 km19233
Nature & day trips. Yokohama leads by 19 points.19
New YorkYokohama
Score3958
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6967
Park area within 2 km134 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 14 points.14
New YorkYokohama
Score7258
Tourist attractions within 2 km3716
Park area within 2 km134 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km78
Sights concentration. New York leads by 30 points.30
New YorkYokohama
Score7444
Notable places within 2 km26849
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Yokohama leads by 27 points.27
New YorkYokohama
Score4370
Price level global10062.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Yokohama leads by 5 points.5
New YorkYokohama
Score5863
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 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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F
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A
M
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J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
New York
No sunshine record
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. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkYokohama
SeoulICN, GMP
13 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 77 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
5 h 20 m
€314-354
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
11 h 0 m
€789-943
HND · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 5 m
€236-237
LGA · 13 km
12 h 35 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
3 h 20 m
€201-385
LGA · 13 km
12 h 55 m
€966-988
1 stop
HND · 18 km
Hong KongHKG
15 h 55 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
4 h 10 m
€255-268
NRT · 77 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 5 m
€203-258
LGA · 13 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
4 h 40 m
€374-446
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
13 h 55 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
NRT · 77 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

MeasureNew YorkYokohama
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
Elevation25 m24 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkYokohama
City population8,804,1903,757,630
People per km²7,2568,585
Museums within 10 km15738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre13266
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months5 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.