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Varanasi or Yokohama?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Rowing boats below the ghats in the morning light, Varanasi
Varanasi

Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
Yokohama

Photo: Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped

Your match

Varanasi
40
match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Yokohama
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on families and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

VaranasiYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Yokohama leads by 42 points.42
Food & drink. Yokohama leads by 17 points.17
Culture & sights. Varanasi leads by 25 points.25
Nightlife. Yokohama leads by 34 points.34
Nature & outdoors. Yokohama leads by 48 points.48
Day trips. Yokohama leads by 44 points.44
Good for families. Yokohama leads by 81 points.81
Getting around. Yokohama leads by 59 points.59
Shopping & style. Yokohama leads by 5 points.5
Affordability. Varanasi leads by 37 points.37
Live music & performing arts. Varanasi leads by 2 points.2
Wellness & relaxation. Yokohama leads by 30 points.30
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Varanasi and Yokohama.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyVaranasiYokohama
Daytime high35 °C28 °C
Night-time low27 °C22 °C
Rainfall in the month249 mm145 mm
SunshineNo figure5 hours a day
Sea temperatureNo sea24 °C
Daylight14 hours a day14 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Varanasi
24
29
35
41
43
41
35
33
32
32
28
24
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Varanasi
No coastline within reach
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Varanasi
12
14
10
11
23
110
249
200
146
34
2
5
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Varanasi
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Varanasi
No sunshine record
Yokohama
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

Where the figures come from

Varanasi 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. Varanasi: 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromVaranasiYokohama
MumbaiBOM, NMI
2 h 10 m
€147-164
VNS · 21 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
New DelhiDEL
1 h 25 m
€121-127
VNS · 21 km
7 h 35 m
€543-568
1 stop
HND · 18 km
BengaluruBLR
2 h 25 m
no fares
VNS · 21 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 20 m
€433-468
1 stop
VNS · 21 km
6 h 10 m
€318-337
NRT · 77 km
KathmanduKTM
1 h 5 m
no fares
VNS · 21 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
NRT · 77 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 2026-10 to 2026-12, 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

MeasureVaranasiYokohama
Official languageHindi, EnglishJapanese
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC+9
Emergency number108 or 112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation76 m24 m
Main airportLal Bahadur Shastri International Airport (VNS)21 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureVaranasiYokohama
City population1,198,4913,757,630
People per km²14,5988,585
Museums within 10 km238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.