VacationSelector

Rome or Tokyo?

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

Your match

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Tokyo
66
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

RomeTokyo
Beaches & swimming. Rome leads by 12 points.12
RomeTokyo
Score3321
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km31
Coast distance24 km5 km
Water distance24 km5 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 30 points.30
RomeTokyo
Score6090
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,2416,936
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1025
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 18 points.18
RomeTokyo
Score8466
Museums within 10 km161302
Museums within 2 km of centre7952
Share of museums within 2 km %4917
Unesco sites within 50 km71
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 21 points.21
RomeTokyo
Score7495
Drinking venues within 4 km2,0226,895
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre9123,033
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4544
Nightclubs within 4 km8558
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 12 points.12
RomeTokyo
Score7058
Protected land share 50 km %19—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7885
Park area within 2 km172 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 15 points.15
RomeTokyo
Score8671
Tourist attractions within 2 km12640
Park area within 2 km172 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km49
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 39 points.39
RomeTokyo
Score9960
Notable places within 2 km1,125121
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tokyo leads by 2 points.2
RomeTokyo
Score6870
Price level global64.962.4
Daily budget€155—
Year-round weather. Rome leads by 7 points.7
RomeTokyo
Score7164
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 31.4 °C10 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 114 mm57 mm to 237 mm
Dry months30
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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Sea temperature, °C
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Daylight, hours per day
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4
Tokyo
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. Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRomeTokyo
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 15 m
€630-760
FCO · 23 km
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 56 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 25 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
€136-291
FCO · 23 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
Hong KongHKG
11 h 35 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
4 h 10 m
€255-268
NRT · 56 km
DohaDOH
5 h 25 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
10 h 25 m
€931-1048
1 stop
HND · 18 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
12 h 40 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
13 h 55 m
no fares
NRT · 56 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

MeasureRomeTokyo
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
Elevation21 m6 m
Main airportRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureRomeTokyo
City population2,748,10914,264,798
People per km²2,1356,501
Museums within 10 km177191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km71
Distinct cuisines in the centre65125
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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). 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). 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. 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.