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San Francisco or Yokohama?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

San Francisco
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and year-round weather with your weighting.

Yokohama
61
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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.

San FranciscoYokohama
Beaches & swimming. San Francisco leads by 11 points.11
San FranciscoYokohama
Score6049
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km442
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. San Francisco leads by 5 points.5
San FranciscoYokohama
Score8378
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,3593,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3924
Museums & heritage. Yokohama leads by 9 points.9
San FranciscoYokohama
Score4453
Museums within 10 km5757
Museums within 2 km of centre2931
Share of museums within 2 km %5154
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Yokohama leads by 6 points.6
San FranciscoYokohama
Score6874
Drinking venues within 4 km1,4342,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre9281,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6564
Nightclubs within 4 km9733
Nature & day trips. San Francisco leads by 2 points.2
San FranciscoYokohama
Score6058
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %5767
Park area within 2 km45 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Yokohama leads by 1 points.1
San FranciscoYokohama
Score5758
Tourist attractions within 2 km4816
Park area within 2 km45 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. San Francisco leads by 19 points.19
San FranciscoYokohama
Score6344
Notable places within 2 km14749
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Yokohama leads by 27 points.27
San FranciscoYokohama
Score4370
Price level global10062.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. San Francisco leads by 15 points.15
San FranciscoYokohama
Score7863
Monthly daytime high14 °C to 23.2 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 105 mm46 mm to 219 mm
Dry months70
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
San Francisco
14
16
18
20
20
22
22
23
23
22
18
14
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
San Francisco
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
San Francisco
105
87
91
26
16
5
0
1
7
27
72
87
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
San Francisco
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
San Francisco
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. San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan FranciscoYokohama
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 20 m
€662-735
SFO · 18 km
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 77 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
12 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
2 h 10 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
9 h 30 m
€595-735
1 stop
NRT · 77 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
3 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
12 h 55 m
€966-988
1 stop
HND · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
1 h 20 m
no fares
OAK · 18 km
11 h 0 m
€789-943
HND · 18 km
Hong KongHKG
13 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
4 h 10 m
€255-268
NRT · 77 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
4 h 15 m
no fares
OAK · 18 km
13 h 55 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
DohaDOH
15 h 55 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
10 h 25 m
€931-1048
1 stop
HND · 18 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

MeasureSan FranciscoYokohama
Official languageJapanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation16 m24 m
Main airportSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan FranciscoYokohama
City population873,9653,757,630
People per km²1,4558,585
Museums within 10 km5038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre10866
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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). 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. 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.