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Colourful houses along the Inn, Innsbruck
InnsbruckColourful houses along the Inn
The pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto
KyotoThe pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera

Photos: Innsbruck by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Kyoto by Bert Mulder, Pexels License.

Innsbruck 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 Innsbruck for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • beaches

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

Choose Kyoto for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

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. Innsbruck 20, Kyoto 15: Innsbruck leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Innsbruck 40, Kyoto 85: Kyoto leads by 45 points.
Culture & sights. Innsbruck 58, Kyoto 96: Kyoto leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Innsbruck 38, Kyoto 35: Innsbruck leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Innsbruck 96, Kyoto 70: Innsbruck leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Innsbruck 72, Kyoto 96: Kyoto leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Innsbruck 62, Kyoto 68: Kyoto leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Innsbruck 78, Kyoto 72: Innsbruck leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Innsbruck 38, Kyoto 72: Kyoto leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Innsbruck 38, Kyoto 50: Kyoto leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Innsbruck 45, Kyoto 60: Kyoto leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Innsbruck 45, Kyoto 70: Kyoto leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Innsbruck and Kyoto.

Your match

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

Innsbruck
53match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

Kyoto
Best match
66match

Wins on food and drink and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Innsbruck in July

26 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
129 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Innsbruck: 1991-2020 normals, Innsbruck-Flughafen (3.3 km from centre). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInnsbruckKyoto
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageJapanese
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
Elevation574 m51 m
Main airportInnsbruck Airport (INN)4 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureInnsbruckKyoto
City population132,4991,463,723
People per km²1,2631,768
Museums within 10 km2877
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.