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Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

West Palm 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 West Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • shopping

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • getting around
  • prices
  • day trips

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. West Palm Beach 80, Yokohama 46: West Palm Beach leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. West Palm Beach 52, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. West Palm Beach 42, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. West Palm Beach 36, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. West Palm Beach 58, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 8 points.
Day trips. West Palm Beach 55, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 31 points.
Good for families. West Palm Beach 66, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 20 points.
Getting around. West Palm Beach 38, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 49 points.
Shopping & style. West Palm Beach 64, Yokohama 60: West Palm Beach leads by 4 points.
Affordability. West Palm Beach 23, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. West Palm Beach 47, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. West Palm Beach 44, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: West Palm Beach and Yokohama.

Your match

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

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on beaches and shopping with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °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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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. West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureWest Palm 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
Elevation6 m24 m
Main airportPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureWest Palm BeachYokohama
City population117,4153,757,630
People per km²7868,585
Museums within 10 km438
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). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.