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The white beach below the high-rise hotels, Orange Beach
Orange BeachThe white beach below the high-rise hotels
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Orange Beach by WeaponizingArchitecture, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Orange Beach 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 Orange Beach for

  • beaches

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

Choose Tokyo for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

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. Orange Beach 86, Tokyo 40: Orange Beach leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Orange Beach 40, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 58 points.
Culture & sights. Orange Beach 7, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 77 points.
Nightlife. Orange Beach 30, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 56 points.
Nature & outdoors. Orange Beach 60, Tokyo 68: Tokyo leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Orange Beach 50, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Orange Beach 75, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Orange Beach 15, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 83 points.
Shopping & style. Orange Beach 25, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 74 points.
Affordability. Orange Beach 38, Tokyo 48: Tokyo leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Orange Beach 32, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Orange Beach 32, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 46 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Orange Beach and Tokyo.

Your match

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

Orange Beach
41match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on getting around 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.

Orange Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 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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Orange BeachTokyo

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Orange Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Gulf Shores / Bay Village Mobile Home Park (10.5 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOrange BeachTokyo
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
Elevation4 m6 m
Main airportPensacola International Airport (PNS)41 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureOrange BeachTokyo
City population8,09514,264,798
People per km²1966,501
Museums within 10 km0192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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.