VacationSelector

Faro or Kyoto?

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

Your match

Faro
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Kyoto
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage 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.

FaroKyoto
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 44 points.44
FaroKyoto
Score6117
Swim season months35
Beaches 10 km130
Coast distance0 km47 km
Water distance0 km47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 40 points.40
FaroKyoto
Score4484
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2555,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2222
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 50 points.50
FaroKyoto
Score2272
Museums within 10 km9132
Museums within 2 km of centre851
Share of museums within 2 km %8939
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 59 points.59
FaroKyoto
Score2180
Drinking venues within 4 km1433,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1232,363
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8673
Nightclubs within 4 km826
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 35 points.35
FaroKyoto
Score5722
Protected land share 50 km %112
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %42100
Park area within 2 km34 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 30 points.30
FaroKyoto
Score3666
Tourist attractions within 2 km1062
Park area within 2 km34 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 30 points.30
FaroKyoto
Score2252
Notable places within 2 km1479
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 4 points.4
FaroKyoto
Score7470
Price level global55.962.4
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 21 points.21
FaroKyoto
Score8362
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C8.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm40 mm to 232 mm
Dry months60
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Kyoto
9
9
13
20
24
27
31
32
28
22
17
11
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
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. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroKyoto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 0 m
€138-208
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
3 h 25 m
€203-217
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
MunichMUC
3 h 5 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 40 m
€134-165
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
13 h 10 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

MeasureFaroKyoto
Official languagePortugueseJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation10 m51 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroKyoto
City population64,5601,463,723
People per km²3191,768
Museums within 10 km276
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre3489
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.