VacationSelector

Sofia or Yokohama?

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

Your match

Sofia
56
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

Yokohama
✓ Best match
61
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

SofiaYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Yokohama leads by 49 points.49
SofiaYokohama
Score049
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance214 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Yokohama leads by 14 points.14
SofiaYokohama
Score6478
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8453,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2824
Museums & heritage. Sofia leads by 4 points.4
SofiaYokohama
Score5753
Museums within 10 km5157
Museums within 2 km of centre4031
Share of museums within 2 km %7854
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Yokohama leads by 13 points.13
SofiaYokohama
Score6174
Drinking venues within 4 km9582,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6081,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6364
Nightclubs within 4 km10233
Nature & day trips. Yokohama leads by 7 points.7
SofiaYokohama
Score5158
Protected land share 50 km %12
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %10067
Park area within 2 km229 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Yokohama leads by 3 points.3
SofiaYokohama
Score5558
Tourist attractions within 2 km2016
Park area within 2 km229 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km08
Sights concentration. Sofia leads by 13 points.13
SofiaYokohama
Score5744
Notable places within 2 km10449
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sofia leads by 29 points.29
SofiaYokohama
Score9970
Price level global21.462.4
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. Sofia leads by 1 points.1
SofiaYokohama
Score6463
Monthly daytime high3.5 °C to 28.4 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall36 mm to 78 mm46 mm to 219 mm
Dry months30
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
Sofia
4
7
11
17
21
25
28
28
23
18
11
5
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Sofia
No coastline within reach
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Sofia
36
36
45
52
73
78
64
56
54
56
38
41
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Sofia
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Sofia
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2
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. Sofia: 1991-2020 normals, Sofia Observ. (7.3 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSofiaYokohama
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 5 m
€70-85
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€130-210
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€74-99
SOF · 8 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 8 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 5 m
€56-159
SOF · 8 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
MunichMUC
2 h 0 m
no fares
SOF · 8 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€55-68
SOF · 8 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 0 m
€614-660
2 stops
SOF · 8 km
6 h 10 m
€318-337
NRT · 77 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 45 m
€99-135
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€154-198
SOF · 8 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
NRT · 77 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

MeasureSofiaYokohama
Official languageBulgarianJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation560 m24 m
Main airportSofia Airport (SOF)8 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSofiaYokohama
City population1,213,1343,757,630
People per km²2,4668,585
Museums within 10 km4238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5166
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. 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.