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The Riva in front of Diocletian's Palace, Split
SplitThe Riva in front of Diocletian's Palace
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Split by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Split 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 Split for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • families
  • shopping
  • 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. Split 75, Yokohama 46: Split leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. Split 57, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Split 66, Yokohama 55: Split leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Split 52, Yokohama 44: Split leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Split 77, Yokohama 66: Split leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Split 78, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Split 54, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Split 67, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Split 32, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Split 45, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Split 37, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Split 40, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Split and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Split
57match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on families and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Split in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
25 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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. Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSplitYokohama
Official languageCroatianJapanese
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
Elevation0 m24 m
Main airportSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre69 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSplitYokohama
City population160,5773,757,630
People per km²-8,585
Museums within 10 km1138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.