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El Castillo above the beach at Tulum, Tulum
TulumEl Castillo above the beach at Tulum
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Tulum by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Tulum 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 Tulum for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nightlife

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • families

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. Tulum 88, Yokohama 46: Tulum leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Tulum 52, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Tulum 30, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Tulum 60, Yokohama 44: Tulum leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Tulum 76, Yokohama 66: Tulum leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Tulum 68, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Tulum 60, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Tulum 25, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 62 points.
Shopping & style. Tulum 35, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Tulum 30, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Tulum 15, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Tulum 85, Yokohama 60: Tulum leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Tulum and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Tulum
52match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Tulum in July

30 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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

Tulum has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tulum: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTulumYokohama
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaJapanese
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation5 m24 m
Main airportFelipe Carrillo Puerto International Airport Tulum (TQO)21 km from centre11 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureTulumYokohama
City population33,3743,757,630
People per km²-8,585
Museums within 10 km038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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). 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.