VacationSelector

Tokyo or York?

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

Your match

Tokyo
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

York
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

TokyoYork
Beaches & swimming. Tokyo leads by 21 points.21
TokyoYork
Score210
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km12
Coast distance5 km50 km
Water distance5 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 36 points.36
TokyoYork
Score9054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,936361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2531
Museums & heritage. Tokyo leads by 20 points.20
TokyoYork
Score6646
Museums within 10 km30218
Museums within 2 km of centre5216
Share of museums within 2 km %1789
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 52 points.52
TokyoYork
Score9543
Drinking venues within 4 km6,895450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3,033353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4478
Nightclubs within 4 km5814
Nature & day trips. Tokyo leads by 25 points.25
TokyoYork
Score5833
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %8595
Park area within 2 km85 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 28 points.28
TokyoYork
Score7143
Tourist attractions within 2 km4013
Park area within 2 km85 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km93
Sights concentration. Tokyo leads by 21 points.21
TokyoYork
Score6039
Notable places within 2 km12137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tokyo leads by 16 points.16
TokyoYork
Score7054
Price level global62.484.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Tokyo leads by 8 points.8
TokyoYork
Score6456
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 31.5 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall57 mm to 237 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months01
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Tokyo
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTokyoYork
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
3 h 10 m
€333-353
HND · 18 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
Hong KongHKG
4 h 10 m
€255-268
NRT · 56 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
6 h 10 m
€318-337
NRT · 56 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
6 h 55 m
€353-477
1 stop
HND · 18 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
10 h 50 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
12 h 50 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
DohaDOH
10 h 25 m
€931-1048
1 stop
HND · 18 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureTokyoYork
Official languageJapaneseEnglish
CurrencyYen (JPY)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+9UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112 or 999
Elevation6 m25 m
Main airportTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureTokyoYork
City population14,264,798208,400
People per km²6,501766
Museums within 10 km19124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre12554
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. 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.