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Parliament Hill across the Ottawa River, Ottawa
OttawaParliament Hill across the Ottawa River
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Ottawa by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Ottawa 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 Ottawa for

  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • day trips
  • food and drink
  • getting around

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. Ottawa 35, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Ottawa 45, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Ottawa 62, Yokohama 55: Ottawa leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Ottawa 35, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ottawa 68, Yokohama 66: Ottawa leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Ottawa 55, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Ottawa 68, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Ottawa 62, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Ottawa 40, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Ottawa 40, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ottawa 52, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ottawa 55, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ottawa and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Ottawa
51match

Wins on culture and sights and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on day trips and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Ottawa in July

27 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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. Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOttawaYokohama
Official languageFrench, EnglishJapanese
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)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
Elevation70 m24 m
Main airportOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureOttawaYokohama
City population1,017,4493,757,630
People per km²3668,585
Museums within 10 km2038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.