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Half-timbered houses on the canal, Petite France, Strasbourg
StrasbourgHalf-timbered houses on the canal, Petite France
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Strasbourg by Edoardo Colombo, Pexels License; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Strasbourg 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 Strasbourg for

  • culture and sights

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • beaches
  • families
  • prices

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. Strasbourg 10, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Strasbourg 66, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Strasbourg 70, Yokohama 55: Strasbourg leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Strasbourg 40, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Strasbourg 62, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Strasbourg 80, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Strasbourg 66, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Strasbourg 79, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Strasbourg 52, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Strasbourg 44, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Strasbourg and Yokohama are level on 56.
Wellness & relaxation. Strasbourg 55, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Strasbourg and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Strasbourg
57match

Wins on culture and sights with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Strasbourg in July

26 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureStrasbourgYokohama
Official languageFrenchJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE230 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
Elevation132 m24 m
Main airportStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureStrasbourgYokohama
City population293,7713,757,630
People per km²3,7528,585
Museums within 10 km2138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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). 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.

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.