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The Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock, Petra
PetraThe Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Petra by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Petra 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 Petra for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Tokyo for

  • nightlife
  • shopping
  • food and drink

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. Petra 5, Tokyo 40: Tokyo leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Petra 22, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 76 points.
Culture & sights. Petra 85, Tokyo 84: Petra leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Petra 5, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 81 points.
Nature & outdoors. Petra 78, Tokyo 68: Petra leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Petra 30, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 55 points.
Good for families. Petra 25, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 70 points.
Getting around. Petra 25, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 73 points.
Shopping & style. Petra 18, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 81 points.
Affordability. Petra 45, Tokyo 48: Tokyo leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Petra 10, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 76 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Petra 28, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 50 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Petra and Tokyo.

Your match

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

Petra
31match

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

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on nightlife and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Petra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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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Where the figures come from

Petra's temperatures are measured 34 km from the centre, at Ma'An.

Petra's station stands 219 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Petra 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. Petra: 1991-2020 normals, Ma'An (33.9 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePetraTokyo
Official languageArabicJapanese
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation850 m6 m
Main airportKing Hussein International Airport (AQJ)90 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePetraTokyo
City population-14,264,798
People per km²-6,501
Museums within 10 km2192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.