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The Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta
AtlantaThe Georgia State Capitol
The pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto
KyotoThe pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera

Photos: Atlanta by DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Kyoto by Bert Mulder, Pexels License.

Atlanta or Kyoto?

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 Atlanta for

  • nightlife
  • families
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Kyoto for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Kyoto’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. Atlanta 10, Kyoto 15: Kyoto leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Atlanta 68, Kyoto 85: Kyoto leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Atlanta 55, Kyoto 96: Kyoto leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Atlanta 65, Kyoto 35: Atlanta leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Atlanta 60, Kyoto 70: Kyoto leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Atlanta 52, Kyoto 96: Kyoto leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Atlanta 70, Kyoto 68: Atlanta leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Atlanta 28, Kyoto 72: Kyoto leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Atlanta 50, Kyoto 72: Kyoto leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Atlanta 40, Kyoto 50: Kyoto leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Atlanta 62, Kyoto 60: Atlanta leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Atlanta 33, Kyoto 70: Kyoto leads by 37 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Atlanta and Kyoto.

Your match

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

Atlanta
49match

Wins on nightlife and families with your weighting.

Kyoto
Best match
66match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Atlanta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
120 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Kyoto in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
225 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °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

Atlanta 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.

Kyoto's sunshine is measured 43 km from the centre, at Osaka.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Atlanta / Carroll Heights (12.5 km from centre). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAtlantaKyoto
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
Elevation225 m51 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaKyoto
City population498,7151,463,723
People per km²1,4331,768
Museums within 10 km2777
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.