VacationSelector

Thessaloniki or Tokyo?

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

Your match

Thessaloniki
59
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Tokyo
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families 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.

ThessalonikiTokyo
Beaches & swimming. Thessaloniki leads by 34 points.34
ThessalonikiTokyo
Score5521
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km41
Coast distance0 km5 km
Water distance0 km5 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 40 points.40
ThessalonikiTokyo
Score5090
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6406,936
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1525
Museums & heritage. Tokyo leads by 17 points.17
ThessalonikiTokyo
Score4966
Museums within 10 km34302
Museums within 2 km of centre2252
Share of museums within 2 km %6517
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 28 points.28
ThessalonikiTokyo
Score6795
Drinking venues within 4 km1,4076,895
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre8053,033
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5744
Nightclubs within 4 km6158
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 7 points.7
ThessalonikiTokyo
Score6558
Protected land share 50 km %25
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8385
Park area within 2 km39 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 30 points.30
ThessalonikiTokyo
Score4171
Tourist attractions within 2 km1640
Park area within 2 km39 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km19
Sights concentration. Tokyo leads by 4 points.4
ThessalonikiTokyo
Score5660
Notable places within 2 km98121
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 4 points.4
ThessalonikiTokyo
Score7470
Price level global55.862.4
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 8 points.8
ThessalonikiTokyo
Score7264
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 32.1 °C10 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 56 mm57 mm to 237 mm
Dry months90
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Sea temperature, °C
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Daylight, hours per day
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3
Tokyo
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. Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromThessalonikiTokyo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€151-156
SKG · 14 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 50 m
€125-175
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 20 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€117-203
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
NRT · 56 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

MeasureThessalonikiTokyo
Official languageGreekJapanese
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
Elevation6 m6 m
Main airportThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureThessalonikiTokyo
City population309,61714,264,798
People per km²16,0426,501
Museums within 10 km31191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre45125
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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. 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. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.