VacationSelector

Catania or Kyoto?

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

Your match

Catania
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Kyoto
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

CataniaKyoto
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 41 points.41
CataniaKyoto
Score5817
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km50
Coast distance1 km47 km
Water distance1 km47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 35 points.35
CataniaKyoto
Score4984
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6375,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1422
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 13 points.13
CataniaKyoto
Score5972
Museums within 10 km34132
Museums within 2 km of centre2751
Share of museums within 2 km %7939
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 33 points.33
CataniaKyoto
Score4780
Drinking venues within 4 km5373,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4032,363
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7573
Nightclubs within 4 km1826
Nature & day trips. Catania leads by 9 points.9
CataniaKyoto
Score3122
Protected land share 50 km %102
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km11 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 30 points.30
CataniaKyoto
Score3666
Tourist attractions within 2 km2562
Park area within 2 km11 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 13 points.13
CataniaKyoto
Score3952
Notable places within 2 km3779
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 2 points.2
CataniaKyoto
Score6870
Price level global64.962.4
Daily budget€155—
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 15 points.15
CataniaKyoto
Score7762
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C8.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 mm40 mm to 232 mm
Dry months50
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
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Kyoto
9
9
13
20
24
27
31
32
28
22
17
11
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4
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. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCataniaKyoto
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 25 m
€101-146
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
2 h 40 m
€157-220
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€166-455
CTA · 4 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
MunichMUC
2 h 5 m
€195-231
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€201-205
CTA · 4 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
2 h 50 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 15 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 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

MeasureCataniaKyoto
Official languageItalianJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation7 m51 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaKyoto
City population311,5841,463,723
People per km²1,7041,768
Museums within 10 km2576
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre3089
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.