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A chairlift and the runs on Whistler Mountain, Whistler
WhistlerA chairlift and the runs on Whistler Mountain
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Whistler by Ruth Hartnup, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Whistler 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 Whistler for

  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • day trips
  • prices
  • live music and the arts

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. Whistler 30, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Whistler 40, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Whistler 20, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Whistler 42, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Whistler 97, Yokohama 66: Whistler leads by 31 points.
Day trips. Whistler 30, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 56 points.
Good for families. Whistler 68, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Whistler 68, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Whistler 30, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Whistler 12, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Whistler 15, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Whistler and Yokohama are level on 60.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Whistler and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Whistler
43match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on day trips 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.

Whistler in July

25 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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

Whistler has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Whistler: 1991-2020 normals, Whistler - Nesters (1.1 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureWhistlerYokohama
Official languageFrench, EnglishJapanese
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation670 m24 m
Main airportVancouver International Airport (YVR)104 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureWhistlerYokohama
City population13,9823,757,630
People per km²588,585
Museums within 10 km138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.