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The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Salt Lake City or Yokohama?

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 Salt Lake City for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Salt Lake City’s own page.

Choose Yokohama for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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. Salt Lake City 12, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Salt Lake City 40, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Salt Lake City 42, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Salt Lake City 30, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Salt Lake City 90, Yokohama 66: Salt Lake City leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Salt Lake City 34, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 52 points.
Good for families. Salt Lake City 72, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Salt Lake City 42, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 45 points.
Shopping & style. Salt Lake City 36, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Salt Lake City 40, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Salt Lake City 55, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Salt Lake City 38, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Salt Lake City and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Salt Lake City
44match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on day trips 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.

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSalt Lake CityYokohama
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation1,288 m24 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSalt Lake CityYokohama
City population199,7233,757,630
People per km²6908,585
Museums within 10 km1238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.