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Huntington Beach Pier on a summer day, Huntington Beach
Huntington BeachHuntington Beach Pier on a summer day
The pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto
KyotoThe pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera

Photos: Huntington Beach by Stephen Leonardi, Pexels License; Kyoto by Bert Mulder, Pexels License.

Huntington Beach or Kyoto?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Huntington Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Huntington Beach’s own page.

Choose Kyoto for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Kyoto’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Huntington Beach 70, Kyoto 15: Huntington Beach leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Huntington Beach 46, Kyoto 85: Kyoto leads by 39 points.
Culture & sights. Huntington Beach 14, Kyoto 96: Kyoto leads by 82 points.
Nightlife. Huntington Beach 38, Kyoto 35: Huntington Beach leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huntington Beach 58, Kyoto 70: Kyoto leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Huntington Beach 63, Kyoto 96: Kyoto leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Huntington Beach 82, Kyoto 68: Huntington Beach leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Huntington Beach 20, Kyoto 72: Kyoto leads by 52 points.
Shopping & style. Huntington Beach 42, Kyoto 72: Kyoto leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Huntington Beach 28, Kyoto 50: Kyoto leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huntington Beach 33, Kyoto 60: Kyoto leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huntington Beach 36, Kyoto 70: Kyoto leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Huntington Beach and Kyoto.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Huntington Beach
44match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Kyoto
Best match
66match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Huntington Beach in July

26 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Kyoto in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
225 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Kyoto's sunshine is measured 43 km from the centre, at Osaka.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Huntington Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (12.3 km from centre). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuntington BeachKyoto
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-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation12 m51 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)12 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureHuntington BeachKyoto
City population198,7111,463,723
People per km²2,4061,768
Museums within 10 km377
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.