VacationSelector

Kyoto or La Spezia?

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

Your match

Kyoto
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

La Spezia
43
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

KyotoLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 56 points.56
KyotoLa Spezia
Score1773
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km032
Coast distance47 km0 km
Water distance47 km0 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 53 points.53
KyotoLa Spezia
Score8431
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,023235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2211
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 30 points.30
KyotoLa Spezia
Score7242
Museums within 10 km13215
Museums within 2 km of centre5110
Share of museums within 2 km %3967
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 56 points.56
KyotoLa Spezia
Score8024
Drinking venues within 4 km3,215208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7385
Nightclubs within 4 km261
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 30 points.30
KyotoLa Spezia
Score2252
Protected land share 50 km %213
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km45 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 46 points.46
KyotoLa Spezia
Score6620
Tourist attractions within 2 km623
Park area within 2 km45 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 45 points.45
KyotoLa Spezia
Score527
Notable places within 2 km796
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 2 points.2
KyotoLa Spezia
Score7068
Price level global62.464.9
Daily budget—€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 8 points.8
KyotoLa Spezia
Score6270
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months02
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
Kyoto
9
9
13
20
24
27
31
32
28
22
17
11
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoLa Spezia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 15 m
€102-140
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
FLR · 115 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
FLR · 115 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

MeasureKyotoLa Spezia
Official languageJapaneseItalian
CurrencyYen (JPY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation51 m3 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoLa Spezia
City population1,463,72392,119
People per km²1,7681,792
Museums within 10 km7612
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre8922
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.