VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Kyoto?

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

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

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

Kyoto
58
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

Hong KongKyoto
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 70 points.70
Hong KongKyoto
Score8717
Swim season months85
Beaches 10 km650
Coast distance0 km47 km
Water distance0 km47 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 4 points.4
Hong KongKyoto
Score8884
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,3255,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3222
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 36 points.36
Hong KongKyoto
Score3672
Museums within 10 km50132
Museums within 2 km of centre1751
Share of museums within 2 km %3439
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 9 points.9
Hong KongKyoto
Score7180
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9483,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,1542,363
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5973
Nightclubs within 4 km3726
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 42 points.42
Hong KongKyoto
Score6422
Protected land share 50 km %82
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %29100
Park area within 2 km52 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 8 points.8
Hong KongKyoto
Score5866
Tourist attractions within 2 km2762
Park area within 2 km52 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 17 points.17
Hong KongKyoto
Score6952
Notable places within 2 km20479
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 7 points.7
Hong KongKyoto
Score6370
Price level global7262.4
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 12 points.12
Hong KongKyoto
Score7462
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C8.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm40 mm to 232 mm
Dry months40
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Kyoto
9
9
13
20
24
27
31
32
28
22
17
11
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongKyoto
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 5 m
€168-188
HKG · 25 km
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 81 km
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 5 m
€279-371
HKG · 25 km
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 39 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€147-156
HKG · 25 km
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 81 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
2 h 40 m
€170-184
HKG · 25 km
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 81 km
SapporoCTS, OKD
4 h 40 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
3 h 0 m
€127-156
HKG · 25 km
2 h 45 m
€327-334
KIX · 81 km
KaohsiungKHH
1 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
3 h 0 m
€181-306
KIX · 81 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
14 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 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

MeasureHong KongKyoto
Official languageStandard ChineseJapanese
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+9
Emergency number999Police 110, fire 119
Elevation7 m51 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongKyoto
City population7,413,0701,463,723
People per km²–1,768
Museums within 10 km3976
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre7689
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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.