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Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock
York Minster from the city walls, York
YorkYork Minster from the city walls

Photos: Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped; York by PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Yokohama or York?

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 Yokohama for

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • families

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

Choose York for

  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on York’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. Yokohama 46, York 14: Yokohama leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Yokohama 72, York 42: Yokohama leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Yokohama 55, York 70: York leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Yokohama 44, York 36: Yokohama leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Yokohama 66, York 62: Yokohama leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Yokohama 86, York 80: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Yokohama 86, York 60: Yokohama leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Yokohama 87, York 72: Yokohama leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Yokohama 60, York 46: Yokohama leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Yokohama 55, York 38: Yokohama leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Yokohama 56, York 38: Yokohama leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Yokohama 60, York 34: Yokohama leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Yokohama and York.

Your match

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

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on beaches and food and drink with your weighting.

York
49match

Wins on culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

York in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
17 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.

York 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.

York's sunshine is measured 48 km from the centre, at Leeming.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Linton-On-Ouse (14.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureYokohamaYork
Official languageJapaneseEnglish
CurrencyYen (JPY)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+9UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112 or 999
Elevation24 m25 m
Main airportTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureYokohamaYork
City population3,757,630208,400
People per km²8,585766
Museums within 10 km3824
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.