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The coloured houses stepping down to the sea, Positano
PositanoThe coloured houses stepping down to the sea
The old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds, Sapporo
SapporoThe old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds

Photos: Positano by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Sapporo by Feri88, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Positano or Sapporo?

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 Positano for

  • beaches
  • day trips

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

Choose Sapporo for

  • prices
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Sapporo’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. Positano 77, Sapporo 28: Positano leads by 49 points.
Food & drink. Positano 40, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Positano 22, Sapporo 40: Sapporo leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Positano 22, Sapporo 62: Sapporo leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Positano 80, Sapporo 86: Sapporo leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Positano 88, Sapporo 64: Positano leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Positano 28, Sapporo 72: Sapporo leads by 44 points.
Getting around. Positano 35, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 45 points.
Shopping & style. Positano 45, Sapporo 58: Sapporo leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Positano 10, Sapporo 60: Sapporo leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Positano 15, Sapporo 44: Sapporo leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Positano 45, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 35 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Positano and Sapporo.

Your match

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

Positano
42match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Sapporo
Best match
63match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Positano in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Sapporo in July

25 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Positano's temperatures are measured 25 km from the centre, at Capri.

Positano 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.

Positano's sunshine is measured 59 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Positano: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (25.3 km from centre). Sapporo: 1991-2020 normals, Sapporo (2.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePositanoSapporo
Official languageItalianJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation142 m5 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)33 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsNew Chitose Airport (CTS)42 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePositanoSapporo
City population3,7291,959,313
People per km²4291,747
Museums within 10 km1033
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months1 month

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.