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Washington DC or Yokohama?

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

Your match

Washington DC
52
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Yokohama
✓ Best match
61
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

Washington DCYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Yokohama leads by 31 points.31
Washington DCYokohama
Score1849
Swim season months35
Beaches 10 km12
Coast distance34 km1 km
Water distance34 km1 km
Places to eat. Yokohama leads by 1 points.1
Washington DCYokohama
Score7778
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,6663,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3624
Museums & heritage. Washington DC leads by 2 points.2
Washington DCYokohama
Score5553
Museums within 10 km8357
Museums within 2 km of centre5531
Share of museums within 2 km %6654
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Yokohama leads by 13 points.13
Washington DCYokohama
Score6174
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0292,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre5931,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5864
Nightclubs within 4 km5433
Nature & day trips. Yokohama leads by 16 points.16
Washington DCYokohama
Score4258
Protected land share 50 km %10—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %9467
Park area within 2 km96 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Yokohama leads by 20 points.20
Washington DCYokohama
Score3858
Tourist attractions within 2 km716
Park area within 2 km96 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km18
Sights concentration. Washington DC leads by 32 points.32
Washington DCYokohama
Score7644
Notable places within 2 km30549
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Yokohama leads by 27 points.27
Washington DCYokohama
Score4370
Price level global10062.4
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Yokohama leads by 1 points.1
Washington DCYokohama
Score6263
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.7 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall65 mm to 108 mm46 mm to 219 mm
Dry months00
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
Washington DC
7
9
13
20
24
29
32
31
27
21
14
9
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Washington DC
3
3
4
9
14
20
25
26
23
18
12
7
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Washington DC
72
65
89
82
101
107
108
83
100
93
74
86
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Washington DC
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Washington DC
No sunshine record
Yokohama
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Washington DC: 1991-2020 normals, Washington National Airport (5 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromWashington DCYokohama
SeoulICN, GMP
13 h 50 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 77 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 5 m
€233-271
DCA · 5 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
5 h 0 m
€226-372
1 stop
DCA · 5 km
11 h 0 m
€789-943
HND · 18 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 40 m
€267-307
1 stop
DCA · 5 km
13 h 40 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
San FranciscoSFO
5 h 15 m
€284-334
1 stop
DCA · 5 km
10 h 25 m
€755-991
1 stop
HND · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 50 m
€199-215
DCA · 5 km
12 h 35 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 55 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
12 h 55 m
€966-988
1 stop
HND · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 35 m
€507-561
1 stop
IAD · 37 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
DohaDOH
13 h 45 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
10 h 25 m
€931-1048
1 stop
HND · 18 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
4 h 10 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
13 h 55 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 2026-08 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureWashington DCYokohama
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
Elevation72 m24 m
Main airportRonald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)5 km from centre103 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureWashington DCYokohama
City population689,5453,757,630
People per km²3,8968,585
Museums within 10 km9938
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre8266
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months5 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.