VacationSelector

Como or Kyoto?

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

Your match

Como
34
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Kyoto
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

ComoKyoto
Beaches & swimming. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
ComoKyoto
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km80
Coast distance156 km47 km
Water distance47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 59 points.59
ComoKyoto
Score2584
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2595,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km722
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 26 points.26
ComoKyoto
Score4672
Museums within 10 km9132
Museums within 2 km of centre651
Share of museums within 2 km %6739
Unesco sites within 50 km84
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 56 points.56
ComoKyoto
Score2480
Drinking venues within 4 km2133,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1432,363
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6773
Nightclubs within 4 km126
Nature & day trips. Como leads by 18 points.18
ComoKyoto
Score4022
Protected land share 50 km %232
Landscape blanket share 50 km %52
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km15 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 51 points.51
ComoKyoto
Score1566
Tourist attractions within 2 km662
Park area within 2 km15 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 22 points.22
ComoKyoto
Score3052
Notable places within 2 km2279
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 2 points.2
ComoKyoto
Score6870
Price level global64.962.4
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Kyoto leads by 4 points.4
ComoKyoto
Score5862
Monthly daytime high7.1 °C to 27.3 °C8.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall61 mm to 178 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
Como
7
9
14
17
21
25
27
27
22
17
12
8
Kyoto
9
9
13
20
24
27
31
32
28
22
17
11
Sea temperature, °C
Como
No coastline within reach
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Como
69
61
76
138
178
172
158
158
168
150
167
80
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Daylight, hours per day
Como
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Como
4
5
6
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
4
3
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. Como: 1991-2020 normals, Lugano (23 km from centre). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromComoKyoto
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 5 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 81 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 34 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 34 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 10 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 39 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 25 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 81 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 34 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 43 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 20 m
no fares
MXP · 34 km
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 81 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 34 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 10 m
€375-563
MXP · 34 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
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

MeasureComoKyoto
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
Elevation201 m51 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)34 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureComoKyoto
City population83,1841,463,723
People per km²2,2421,768
Museums within 10 km976
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km84
Distinct cuisines in the centre2289
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.