VacationSelector

Frankfurt or Kyoto?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Frankfurt
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

Kyoto
58
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming 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.

FrankfurtKyoto
Beaches & swimming. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
FrankfurtKyoto
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance327 km47 km
Water distance—47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 14 points.14
FrankfurtKyoto
Score7084
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1605,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3122
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 3 points.3
FrankfurtKyoto
Score6972
Museums within 10 km79132
Museums within 2 km of centre4351
Share of museums within 2 km %5439
Unesco sites within 50 km44
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 21 points.21
FrankfurtKyoto
Score5980
Drinking venues within 4 km9313,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6912,363
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7473
Nightclubs within 4 km5626
Nature & day trips. Frankfurt leads by 42 points.42
FrankfurtKyoto
Score6422
Protected land share 50 km %282
Landscape blanket share 50 km %112
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km124 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Frankfurt leads by 2 points.2
FrankfurtKyoto
Score6866
Tourist attractions within 2 km4562
Park area within 2 km124 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Frankfurt leads by 9 points.9
FrankfurtKyoto
Score6152
Notable places within 2 km12979
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 10 points.10
FrankfurtKyoto
Score6070
Price level global75.962.4
Daily budget€163—
Year-round weather. Frankfurt and Kyoto are level on 62.
FrankfurtKyoto
Score6262
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 26.2 °C8.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 68 mm40 mm to 232 mm
Dry months10
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
Frankfurt
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Kyoto
9
9
13
20
24
27
31
32
28
22
17
11
Sea temperature, °C
Frankfurt
No coastline within reach
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Frankfurt
52
44
41
38
62
60
68
60
50
54
53
63
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Daylight, hours per day
Frankfurt
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Frankfurt
2
3
5
7
7
8
8
7
6
4
2
1
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. Frankfurt: 1991-2020 normals, Frankfurt Westend (2 km from centre). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFrankfurtKyoto
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
€490-632
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 81 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 39 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 5 m
€693-750
3 stops
FRA · 13 km
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 81 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 13 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 15 m
€570-612
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 81 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 13 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
12 h 45 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
6 h 25 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
1 h 10 m
€147-192
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 13 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 13 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

MeasureFrankfurtKyoto
Official languageGermanJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 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
Elevation101 m51 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)13 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureFrankfurtKyoto
City population775,7901,463,723
People per km²3,1241,768
Museums within 10 km5376
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km44
Distinct cuisines in the centre7189
Swim season, months above 21 °C–5 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.