VacationSelector

Rotterdam or Tokyo?

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

Your match

Rotterdam
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Tokyo
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

RotterdamTokyo
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 16 points.16
RotterdamTokyo
Score3721
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km221
Coast distance24 km5 km
Water distance24 km5 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 18 points.18
RotterdamTokyo
Score7290
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8626,936
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4625
Museums & heritage. Tokyo leads by 6 points.6
RotterdamTokyo
Score6066
Museums within 10 km41302
Museums within 2 km of centre2052
Share of museums within 2 km %4917
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 46 points.46
RotterdamTokyo
Score4995
Drinking venues within 4 km5426,895
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3783,033
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7044
Nightclubs within 4 km4058
Nature & day trips. Tokyo leads by 16 points.16
RotterdamTokyo
Score4258
Protected land share 50 km %10—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7985
Park area within 2 km61 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 9 points.9
RotterdamTokyo
Score6271
Tourist attractions within 2 km2740
Park area within 2 km61 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km89
Sights concentration. Tokyo leads by 9 points.9
RotterdamTokyo
Score5160
Notable places within 2 km74121
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tokyo leads by 12 points.12
RotterdamTokyo
Score5870
Price level global79.262.4
Daily budget€181—
Year-round weather. Tokyo leads by 8 points.8
RotterdamTokyo
Score5664
Monthly daytime high6.2 °C to 22.1 °C10 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm57 mm to 237 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Sea temperature, °C
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Daylight, hours per day
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRotterdamTokyo
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 56 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
Hong KongHKG
11 h 35 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
4 h 10 m
€255-268
NRT · 56 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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 2026-08 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

MeasureRotterdamTokyo
Official languageDutchJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112 or 911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation10 m6 m
Main airportRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureRotterdamTokyo
City population664,31114,264,798
People per km²2,0806,501
Museums within 10 km40191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre77125
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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.