VacationSelector

Tokyo or Valencia?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Tokyo
66
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Valencia
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

TokyoValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 46 points.46
TokyoValencia
Score2167
Swim season months45
Beaches 10 km112
Coast distance5 km3 km
Water distance5 km3 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 12 points.12
TokyoValencia
Score9078
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,9361,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2533
Museums & heritage. Tokyo leads by 11 points.11
TokyoValencia
Score6655
Museums within 10 km30259
Museums within 2 km of centre5226
Share of museums within 2 km %1744
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 25 points.25
TokyoValencia
Score9570
Drinking venues within 4 km6,8951,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3,033957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4463
Nightclubs within 4 km58108
Nature & day trips. Tokyo leads by 5 points.5
TokyoValencia
Score5853
Protected land share 50 km %10
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8564
Park area within 2 km85 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 29 points.29
TokyoValencia
Score7142
Tourist attractions within 2 km4012
Park area within 2 km85 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km90
Sights concentration. Tokyo leads by 8 points.8
TokyoValencia
Score6052
Notable places within 2 km12178
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 1 points.1
TokyoValencia
Score7071
Price level global62.460.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 20 points.20
TokyoValencia
Score6484
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 31.5 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall57 mm to 237 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months08
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
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Tokyo
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTokyoValencia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 40 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 20 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
12 h 10 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
13 h 20 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 55 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
2 h 0 m
€151-206
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
12 h 50 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 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 2026-09 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

MeasureTokyoValencia
Official languageJapaneseSpanish
CurrencyYen (JPY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation6 m15 m
Main airportTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureTokyoValencia
City population14,264,798840,792
People per km²6,5016,242
Museums within 10 km19146
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre12592
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.