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Fort Lauderdale or Kyoto?

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

Your match

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

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

Kyoto
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

Fort LauderdaleKyoto
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 67 points.67
Fort LauderdaleKyoto
Score8417
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km70
Coast distance0 km47 km
Water distance0 km47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 39 points.39
Fort LauderdaleKyoto
Score4584
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3715,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1822
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 52 points.52
Fort LauderdaleKyoto
Score2072
Museums within 10 km14132
Museums within 2 km of centre651
Share of museums within 2 km %4339
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 46 points.46
Fort LauderdaleKyoto
Score3480
Drinking venues within 4 km2593,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1442,363
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5673
Nightclubs within 4 km1826
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 59 points.59
Fort LauderdaleKyoto
Score8122
Protected land share 50 km %202
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 47 points.47
Fort LauderdaleKyoto
Score1966
Tourist attractions within 2 km262
Park area within 2 km45 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 52 points.52
Fort LauderdaleKyoto
Score052
Notable places within 2 km279
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 27 points.27
Fort LauderdaleKyoto
Score4370
Price level global10062.4
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 14 points.14
Fort LauderdaleKyoto
Score7662
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C8.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Kyoto
9
9
13
20
24
27
31
32
28
22
17
11
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
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. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleKyoto
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
5 h 5 m
€218-274
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
San FranciscoSFO
5 h 35 m
€349-373
2 stops
FLL · 7 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
DetroitDTW, DET, YIP
2 h 50 m
€174-269
FLL · 7 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
5 h 50 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 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 2026-08 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

MeasureFort LauderdaleKyoto
Official language–Japanese
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
Elevation11 m51 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleKyoto
City population182,7601,463,723
People per km²1,8291,768
Museums within 10 km676
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre2589
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. 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.