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Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Porto 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 Porto for

  • nightlife
  • culture and sights
  • prices

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • families
  • wellness
  • 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. Porto 40, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Porto 70, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Porto 68, Yokohama 55: Porto leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Porto 65, Yokohama 44: Porto leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Porto 64, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Porto 79, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Porto 52, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 34 points.
Getting around. Porto 66, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 21 points.
Shopping & style. Porto 52, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Porto 62, Yokohama 55: Porto leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Porto 52, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Porto 34, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Porto and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Porto
59match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on families and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
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. Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePortoYokohama
Official languagePortugueseJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation104 m24 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre134 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortoYokohama
City population273,4763,757,630
People per km²6,6068,585
Museums within 10 km4238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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). 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. 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.