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The Dzhumaya Mosque, Plovdiv
PlovdivThe Dzhumaya Mosque
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Plovdiv by Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Plovdiv 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 Plovdiv for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • families
  • beaches
  • shopping

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. Plovdiv 7, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 39 points.
Food & drink. Plovdiv 50, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Plovdiv 66, Yokohama 55: Plovdiv leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Plovdiv 42, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Plovdiv 68, Yokohama 66: Plovdiv leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Plovdiv 70, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Plovdiv 40, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 46 points.
Getting around. Plovdiv 65, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Plovdiv 33, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Plovdiv 78, Yokohama 55: Plovdiv leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Plovdiv 42, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Plovdiv 44, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Plovdiv and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Plovdiv
50match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Plovdiv in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine 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

Plovdiv 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.

Plovdiv's sunshine is measured 75 km from the centre, at Kurdjali.

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Plovdiv: 1997-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Plovdiv (1.2 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePlovdivYokohama
Official languageBulgarianJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation172 m24 m
Main airportPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePlovdivYokohama
City population333,9943,757,630
People per km²3,2748,585
Museums within 10 km1838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.