VacationSelector

Kyoto or Las Vegas?

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 museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Las Vegas
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

KyotoLas Vegas
Beaches & swimming. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
KyotoLas Vegas
Score170
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance47 km372 km
Water distance47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 22 points.22
KyotoLas Vegas
Score8462
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,023915
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2224
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 53 points.53
KyotoLas Vegas
Score7219
Museums within 10 km13224
Museums within 2 km of centre514
Share of museums within 2 km %3917
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 22 points.22
KyotoLas Vegas
Score8058
Drinking venues within 4 km3,215793
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363485
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7361
Nightclubs within 4 km2690
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 41 points.41
KyotoLas Vegas
Score2263
Protected land share 50 km %250
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 32 points.32
KyotoLas Vegas
Score6634
Tourist attractions within 2 km6219
Park area within 2 km45 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 1 points.1
KyotoLas Vegas
Score5251
Notable places within 2 km7975
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 27 points.27
KyotoLas Vegas
Score7043
Price level global62.4100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 10 points.10
KyotoLas Vegas
Score6272
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C13.9 °C to 40.3 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm1 mm to 21 mm
Dry months012
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
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Las Vegas
No sunshine record

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). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoLas Vegas
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 5 m
€76-164
LAS · 4 km
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 81 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
San FranciscoSFO
10 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 25 m
€91-219
LAS · 4 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
12 h 55 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
3 h 30 m
€171-225
LAS · 4 km
HonoluluHNL
8 h 25 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
10 h 10 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 20 m
€132-243
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 10 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
4 h 20 m
€261-438
1 stop
LAS · 4 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 2026-08 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

MeasureKyotoLas Vegas
Official languageJapanese
CurrencyYen (JPY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation51 m610 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoLas Vegas
City population1,463,723641,903
People per km²1,7681,843
Museums within 10 km7621
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8949
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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.