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Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock
People's Square (Narodni trg), Zadar
ZadarPeople's Square (Narodni trg)

Photos: Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Zadar by Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, cropped.

Yokohama or Zadar?

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

  • shopping
  • families
  • getting around

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

Choose Zadar for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Zadar’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, Zadar 72: Zadar leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Yokohama 72, Zadar 45: Yokohama leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Yokohama and Zadar are level on 55.
Nightlife. Yokohama 44, Zadar 38: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Yokohama 66, Zadar 82: Zadar leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Yokohama 86, Zadar 70: Yokohama leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Yokohama 86, Zadar 55: Yokohama leads by 31 points.
Getting around. Yokohama 87, Zadar 58: Yokohama leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Yokohama 60, Zadar 27: Yokohama leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Yokohama 55, Zadar 52: Yokohama leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Yokohama 56, Zadar 28: Yokohama leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Yokohama 60, Zadar 35: Yokohama leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Yokohama and Zadar.

Your match

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

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on shopping and families with your weighting.

Zadar
51match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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

Zadar in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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.

Zadar 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureYokohamaZadar
Official languageJapaneseCroatian
CurrencyYen (JPY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation24 m5 m
Main airportTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureYokohamaZadar
City population3,757,63070,779
People per km²8,585-
Museums within 10 km381
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.