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The old town below the fortress, Salzburg
SalzburgThe old town below the fortress
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Salzburg by Leonhard Niederwimmer, Pexels License; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Salzburg 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 Salzburg for

  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Salzburg’s own page.

Choose Yokohama for

  • food and drink
  • prices
  • families

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. Salzburg 35, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Salzburg 45, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Salzburg 72, Yokohama 55: Salzburg leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Salzburg 25, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Salzburg 86, Yokohama 66: Salzburg leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Salzburg 80, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Salzburg 65, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Salzburg 72, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Salzburg 48, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Salzburg 32, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Salzburg 80, Yokohama 56: Salzburg leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Salzburg 55, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Salzburg and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Salzburg
58match

Wins on live music and the arts and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on food and drink and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Salzburg in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSalzburgYokohama
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageJapanese
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 number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation424 m24 m
Main airportSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre64 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSalzburgYokohama
City population155,0213,757,630
People per km²2,3608,585
Museums within 10 km3838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
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). 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.