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The Hassan II Mosque and its minaret, Casablanca
CasablancaThe Hassan II Mosque and its minaret
The pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto
KyotoThe pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera

Photos: Casablanca by Samir Bakkah, Pexels License; Kyoto by Bert Mulder, Pexels License.

Casablanca 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 Casablanca for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Kyoto for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Casablanca 50, Kyoto 15: Casablanca leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Casablanca 60, Kyoto 85: Kyoto leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Casablanca 52, Kyoto 96: Kyoto leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Casablanca 44, Kyoto 35: Casablanca leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Casablanca 33, Kyoto 70: Kyoto leads by 37 points.
Day trips. Casablanca 55, Kyoto 96: Kyoto leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Casablanca 38, Kyoto 68: Kyoto leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Casablanca 42, Kyoto 72: Kyoto leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Casablanca 50, Kyoto 72: Kyoto leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Casablanca 68, Kyoto 50: Casablanca leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Casablanca 38, Kyoto 60: Kyoto leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Casablanca 52, Kyoto 70: Kyoto leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Casablanca and Kyoto.

Your match

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

Casablanca
49match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Kyoto
Best match
66match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Casablanca in July

26 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
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

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

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Casablanca: 1991-2020 normals, Casablanca (5.6 km from centre). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCasablancaKyoto
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightJapanese
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15Police 110, fire 119
Elevation115 m51 m
Main airportMohammed V International Airport (CMN)26 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCasablancaKyoto
City population3,215,9351,463,723
People per km²8,3751,768
Museums within 10 km377
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.