VacationSelector

Rovaniemi or Yokohama?

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

Your match

Rovaniemi
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Yokohama
✓ Best match
61
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.

RovaniemiYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Yokohama leads by 49 points.49
RovaniemiYokohama
Score049
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km132
Coast distance99 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Yokohama leads by 57 points.57
RovaniemiYokohama
Score2178
Restaurants within 2 km of centre803,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1424
Museums & heritage. Yokohama leads by 33 points.33
RovaniemiYokohama
Score2053
Museums within 10 km857
Museums within 2 km of centre731
Share of museums within 2 km %8854
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Yokohama leads by 70 points.70
RovaniemiYokohama
Score474
Drinking venues within 4 km522,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre421,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8164
Nightclubs within 4 km333
Nature & day trips. Yokohama leads by 42 points.42
RovaniemiYokohama
Score1658
Protected land share 50 km %2
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10067
Park area within 2 km25 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Yokohama leads by 37 points.37
RovaniemiYokohama
Score2158
Tourist attractions within 2 km216
Park area within 2 km25 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km28
Sights concentration. Yokohama leads by 19 points.19
RovaniemiYokohama
Score2544
Notable places within 2 km1749
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Yokohama leads by 14 points.14
RovaniemiYokohama
Score5670
Price level global81.662.4
Daily budget€184
Year-round weather. Yokohama leads by 20 points.20
RovaniemiYokohama
Score4363
Monthly daytime high-7.9 °C to 20.9 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall30 mm to 75 mm46 mm to 219 mm
Dry months50
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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F
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Daytime high, °C
Rovaniemi
-8
-6
-1
5
13
18
21
18
13
4
0
-4
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Rovaniemi
No coastline within reach
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Rovaniemi
37
32
33
30
37
69
75
63
50
50
48
41
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Rovaniemi
4
8
12
15
20
24
22
17
13
10
6
3
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Rovaniemi
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. Rovaniemi: 2008-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rovaniemi Rautatieasema / Kuusela (0.6 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRovaniemiYokohama
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 30 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
9 h 50 m
€1,071-1283
1 stop
HND · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
3 h 40 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 5 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 0 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
5 h 15 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 10 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
ZurichZRH
3 h 25 m
no fares
RVN · 8 km
11 h 55 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

MeasureRovaniemiYokohama
Official languageFinnish, SwedishJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation88 m24 m
Main airportRovaniemi Airport (RVN)8 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureRovaniemiYokohama
City population65,3293,757,630
People per km²98,585
Museums within 10 km638
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre1666
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.