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The beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier, Virginia Beach
Virginia BeachThe beach and the oceanfront hotels from the fishing pier
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Virginia Beach by SchuminWeb, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Virginia Beach 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 Virginia Beach for

  • beaches

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • shopping

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. Virginia Beach 77, Yokohama 46: Virginia Beach leads by 31 points.
Food & drink. Virginia Beach 42, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Virginia Beach 30, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Virginia Beach 37, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Virginia Beach 56, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Virginia Beach 64, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Virginia Beach 75, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Virginia Beach 27, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 60 points.
Shopping & style. Virginia Beach 32, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Virginia Beach 40, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Virginia Beach 38, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Virginia Beach 32, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Virginia Beach and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Virginia Beach
46match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Virginia Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
152 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 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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Virginia BeachYokohama

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. Virginia Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Virginia Beach / Gatewood Park (5.7 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureVirginia BeachYokohama
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation7 m24 m
Main airportNorfolk International Airport (ORF)20 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureVirginia BeachYokohama
City population459,4703,757,630
People per km²-8,585
Museums within 10 km238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.