VacationSelector

Yokohama or Zurich?

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

Your match

Yokohama
✓ Best match
61
match

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

Zurich
44
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

YokohamaZurich
Beaches & swimming. Yokohama leads by 49 points.49
YokohamaZurich
Score490
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km223
Coast distance1 km632 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Yokohama leads by 11 points.11
YokohamaZurich
Score7867
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,004974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2430
Museums & heritage. Zurich leads by 3 points.3
YokohamaZurich
Score5356
Museums within 10 km5776
Museums within 2 km of centre3137
Share of museums within 2 km %5449
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Yokohama leads by 20 points.20
YokohamaZurich
Score7454
Drinking venues within 4 km2,344676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,498553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6482
Nightclubs within 4 km3374
Nature & day trips. Yokohama leads by 21 points.21
YokohamaZurich
Score5837
Protected land share 50 km %16
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %67100
Park area within 2 km88 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Yokohama leads by 22 points.22
YokohamaZurich
Score5836
Tourist attractions within 2 km168
Park area within 2 km88 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km82
Sights concentration. Zurich leads by 15 points.15
YokohamaZurich
Score4459
Notable places within 2 km49119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Yokohama leads by 35 points.35
YokohamaZurich
Score7035
Price level global62.4110.5
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Yokohama leads by 10 points.10
YokohamaZurich
Score6353
Monthly daytime high9.5 °C to 30.1 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 219 mm60 mm to 128 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
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Zurich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Yokohama
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Yokohama
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromYokohamaZurich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
SeoulICN, GMP
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 77 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
6 h 10 m
€318-337
NRT · 77 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
Hong KongHKG
4 h 10 m
€255-268
NRT · 77 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
6 h 55 m
€353-477
1 stop
HND · 18 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
10 h 0 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 9 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 2026-09 to 2026-10, 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

MeasureYokohamaZurich
Official languageJapaneseFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyYen (JPY)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation24 m408 m
Main airportTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureYokohamaZurich
City population3,757,630452,421
People per km²8,5855,147
Museums within 10 km3863
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre6678
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. 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.