VacationSelector

Atlanta or Kyoto?

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

Your match

Atlanta
40
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Kyoto
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

AtlantaKyoto
Beaches & swimming. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
AtlantaKyoto
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance373 km47 km
Water distance47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 25 points.25
AtlantaKyoto
Score5984
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7395,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2322
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 37 points.37
AtlantaKyoto
Score3572
Museums within 10 km41132
Museums within 2 km of centre1651
Share of museums within 2 km %3939
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 31 points.31
AtlantaKyoto
Score4980
Drinking venues within 4 km5313,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2842,363
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5373
Nightclubs within 4 km4626
Nature & day trips. Atlanta leads by 9 points.9
AtlantaKyoto
Score3122
Protected land share 50 km %12
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km113 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 34 points.34
AtlantaKyoto
Score3266
Tourist attractions within 2 km262
Park area within 2 km113 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 12 points.12
AtlantaKyoto
Score4052
Notable places within 2 km3979
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 27 points.27
AtlantaKyoto
Score4370
Price level global10062.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Atlanta leads by 5 points.5
AtlantaKyoto
Score6762
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C8.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm40 mm to 232 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
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Kyoto
9
9
13
20
24
27
31
32
28
22
17
11
Sea temperature, °C
Atlanta
No coastline within reach
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaKyoto
SeoulICN, GMP
14 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 81 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 40 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 39 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
4 h 20 m
€165-240
1 stop
ATL · 14 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 50 m
€161-221
ATL · 14 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
San FranciscoSFO
4 h 40 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
HonoluluHNL
9 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
Abu DhabiAUH
15 h 5 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
9 h 40 m
€810-860
3 stops
KIX · 81 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

MeasureAtlantaKyoto
Official languageJapanese
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 km2776
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre5689
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. 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. 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.