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The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Valencia 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 Valencia for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • wellness
  • day trips
  • 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. Valencia 78, Yokohama 46: Valencia leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Valencia 74, Yokohama 72: Valencia leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Valencia 68, Yokohama 55: Valencia leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Valencia 66, Yokohama 44: Valencia leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Valencia 60, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Valencia 70, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Valencia 75, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Valencia 76, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Valencia 57, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Valencia 57, Yokohama 55: Valencia leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Valencia 55, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Valencia 42, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Valencia and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Valencia
65match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Yokohama
64match

Wins on wellness and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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. Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureValenciaYokohama
Official languageSpanishJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 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
Elevation15 m24 m
Main airportValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureValenciaYokohama
City population840,7923,757,630
People per km²6,2428,585
Museums within 10 km4538
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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. 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.

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.