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Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Sedona or Tokyo?

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 Sedona for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Tokyo for

  • nightlife
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Tokyo’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. Sedona 16, Tokyo 40: Tokyo leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Sedona 33, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 65 points.
Culture & sights. Sedona 20, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Sedona 8, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 78 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sedona 93, Tokyo 68: Sedona leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Sedona 55, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Sedona 42, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 53 points.
Getting around. Sedona 22, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 76 points.
Shopping & style. Sedona 34, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 65 points.
Affordability. Sedona 18, Tokyo 48: Tokyo leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sedona 13, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 73 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sedona 82, Tokyo 78: Sedona leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sedona and Tokyo.

Your match

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

Sedona
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness with your weighting.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on nightlife 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.

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °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

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSedonaTokyo
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-7UTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation1,319 m6 m
Main airportPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSedonaTokyo
City population9,68414,264,798
People per km²1956,501
Museums within 10 km0192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

Where else could you go?

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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.