VacationSelector

Kyoto or Lima?

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.

Lima
55
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

KyotoLima
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 20 points.20
KyotoLima
Score1737
Swim season months52
Beaches 10 km012
Coast distance47 km6 km
Water distance47 km6 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 32 points.32
KyotoLima
Score8452
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,023796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2214
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 8 points.8
KyotoLima
Score7264
Museums within 10 km13289
Museums within 2 km of centre5147
Share of museums within 2 km %3953
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 35 points.35
KyotoLima
Score8045
Drinking venues within 4 km3,215409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7343
Nightclubs within 4 km2663
Nature & day trips. Lima leads by 5 points.5
KyotoLima
Score2227
Protected land share 50 km %22
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km45 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 10 points.10
KyotoLima
Score6656
Tourist attractions within 2 km6225
Park area within 2 km45 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 6 points.6
KyotoLima
Score5246
Notable places within 2 km7954
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lima leads by 10 points.10
KyotoLima
Score7080
Price level global62.447.7
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 30 points.30
KyotoLima
Score6292
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm0 mm to 1 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
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4

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). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoLima
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 10 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 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

MeasureKyotoLima
Official languageJapaneseSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyYen (JPY)Sol (PEN)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119111 or 911
Elevation51 m154 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoLima
City population1,463,7239,943,800
People per km²1,7683,721
Museums within 10 km7646
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre8933
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months2 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.