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Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Stockholm 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 Stockholm for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • shopping

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • food and drink

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. Stockholm 40, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Stockholm 64, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Stockholm 77, Yokohama 55: Stockholm leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Stockholm 57, Yokohama 44: Stockholm leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Stockholm 72, Yokohama 66: Stockholm leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Stockholm 68, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Stockholm 82, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Stockholm 84, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Stockholm 70, Yokohama 60: Stockholm leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Stockholm 30, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Stockholm 65, Yokohama 56: Stockholm leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Stockholm 56, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Stockholm and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Stockholm
64match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

Yokohama
64match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 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

Stockholm 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.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

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

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureStockholmYokohama
Official languageSwedishJapanese
CurrencySwedish Krona (SEK)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
Elevation22 m24 m
Main airportStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureStockholmYokohama
City population984,7483,757,630
People per km²5,2608,585
Museums within 10 km26638
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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). 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.

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.