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Kek Lok Si temple on the hillside, Penang
PenangKek Lok Si temple on the hillside
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Penang by Supanut Arunoprayote, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Penang 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 Penang for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • families

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. Penang 44, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Penang 86, Yokohama 72: Penang leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Penang 70, Yokohama 55: Penang leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Penang 40, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Penang 55, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Penang 42, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Penang 52, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Penang 40, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Penang 42, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Penang 78, Yokohama 55: Penang leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Penang 30, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Penang 42, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Penang and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Penang
52match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Penang in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
189 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
12 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. Penang: 1991-2020 normals, Penang / Bayan Lepas (14.5 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePenangYokohama
Official languageMalayJapanese
CurrencyMalaysian Ringgit (MYR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+9
Emergency number999Police 110, fire 119
Elevation4 m24 m
Main airportPenang International Airport (PEN)14 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePenangYokohama
City population794,3133,757,630
People per km²-8,585
Museums within 10 km938
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.