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A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

San Miguel de Allende 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 San Miguel de Allende for

  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’s own page.

Choose Yokohama for

  • families
  • beaches
  • getting around

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. San Miguel de Allende 4, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. San Miguel de Allende 62, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. San Miguel de Allende 62, Yokohama 55: San Miguel de Allende leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. San Miguel de Allende 38, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. San Miguel de Allende 40, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 26 points.
Day trips. San Miguel de Allende 77, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 9 points.
Good for families. San Miguel de Allende 32, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 54 points.
Getting around. San Miguel de Allende 48, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 39 points.
Shopping & style. San Miguel de Allende 55, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 5 points.
Affordability. San Miguel de Allende 50, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Miguel de Allende 40, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Miguel de Allende 66, Yokohama 60: San Miguel de Allende leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Miguel de Allende and Yokohama.

Your match

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

San Miguel de Allende
48match

Wins on culture and sights and wellness with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 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

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

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

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSan Miguel de AllendeYokohama
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaJapanese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation1,900 m24 m
Main airportGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan Miguel de AllendeYokohama
City population69,8113,757,630
People per km²-8,585
Museums within 10 km238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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.