VacationSelector

Rio de Janeiro or Yokohama?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Rio de Janeiro
✓ Best match
69
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Yokohama
61
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Rio de JaneiroYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Rio de Janeiro leads by 51 points.51
Rio de JaneiroYokohama
Score10049
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km612
Coast distance1 km1 km
Water distance1 km1 km
Places to eat. Yokohama leads by 24 points.24
Rio de JaneiroYokohama
Score5478
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8043,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1624
Museums & heritage. Rio de Janeiro leads by 16 points.16
Rio de JaneiroYokohama
Score6953
Museums within 10 km11057
Museums within 2 km of centre5131
Share of museums within 2 km %4654
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Yokohama leads by 17 points.17
Rio de JaneiroYokohama
Score5774
Drinking venues within 4 km8182,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5091,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6264
Nightclubs within 4 km5033
Nature & day trips. Rio de Janeiro leads by 4 points.4
Rio de JaneiroYokohama
Score6258
Protected land share 50 km %21
Landscape blanket share 50 km %170
Land share of disc %5767
Park area within 2 km113 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Rio de Janeiro leads by 1 points.1
Rio de JaneiroYokohama
Score5958
Tourist attractions within 2 km3016
Park area within 2 km113 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. Rio de Janeiro leads by 12 points.12
Rio de JaneiroYokohama
Score5644
Notable places within 2 km9849
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rio de Janeiro leads by 11 points.11
Rio de JaneiroYokohama
Score8170
Price level global46.162.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Rio de Janeiro leads by 22 points.22
Rio de JaneiroYokohama
Score8563
Monthly daytime high24 °C to 28.4 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 232 mm46 mm to 219 mm
Dry months00
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Rio de Janeiro
28
28
28
27
25
24
24
25
25
26
26
27
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Rio de Janeiro
25
25
25
25
24
23
22
21
21
22
23
24
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Rio de Janeiro
208
151
173
101
71
49
45
42
69
108
220
232
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Rio de Janeiro
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Rio de Janeiro
No sunshine record
Yokohama
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Rio de Janeiro: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRio de JaneiroYokohama
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 45 m
€609-699
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 55 m
€915-1205
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
€957-1014
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 35 m
€996-1109
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
10 h 35 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
12 h 55 m
€966-988
1 stop
HND · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 25 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
10 h 10 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 40 m
€1,154-1306
GIG · 12 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
MadridMAD
10 h 15 m
€910-925
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 55 m
€900-974
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureRio de JaneiroYokohama
Official languagePortugueseJapanese
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCN60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193Police 110, fire 119
Elevation31 m24 m
Main airportRio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureRio de JaneiroYokohama
City population6,211,2233,757,630
People per km²4,9308,585
Museums within 10 km7038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre2766
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.