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The arch at the entrance to the boardwalk, Ocean City, Maryland
Ocean City, MarylandThe arch at the entrance to the boardwalk
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Ocean City, Maryland by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Ocean City, Maryland 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 Ocean City, Maryland for

  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Ocean City, Maryland’s own page.

Choose Tokyo for

  • shopping
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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. Ocean City, Maryland 78, Tokyo 40: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Ocean City, Maryland 40, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 58 points.
Culture & sights. Ocean City, Maryland 14, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 70 points.
Nightlife. Ocean City, Maryland 45, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 41 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ocean City, Maryland 50, Tokyo 68: Tokyo leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Ocean City, Maryland 42, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Ocean City, Maryland 78, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Ocean City, Maryland 34, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 64 points.
Shopping & style. Ocean City, Maryland 24, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 75 points.
Affordability. Ocean City, Maryland 40, Tokyo 48: Tokyo leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ocean City, Maryland 18, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 68 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ocean City, Maryland 22, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 56 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ocean City, Maryland and Tokyo.

Your match

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

Ocean City, Maryland
40match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on shopping and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Ocean City, Maryland in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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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Ocean City, MarylandTokyo

Where the figures come from

Ocean City, Maryland has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ocean City, Maryland: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Ocean City / Morris Mobile Home Park (10.2 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOcean City, MarylandTokyo
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
Elevation2 m6 m
Main airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)39 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureOcean City, MarylandTokyo
City population6,84414,264,798
People per km²736,501
Museums within 10 km0192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.