VacationSelector

Kyoto or Manchester?

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 good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Manchester
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

KyotoManchester
Beaches & swimming. Manchester leads by 11 points.11
KyotoManchester
Score1728
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km010
Coast distance47 km27 km
Water distance47 km27 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 16 points.16
KyotoManchester
Score8468
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,023853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2235
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 30 points.30
KyotoManchester
Score7242
Museums within 10 km13223
Museums within 2 km of centre5111
Share of museums within 2 km %3948
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 18 points.18
KyotoManchester
Score8062
Drinking venues within 4 km3,2151,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363792
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7377
Nightclubs within 4 km2682
Nature & day trips. Manchester leads by 14 points.14
KyotoManchester
Score2236
Protected land share 50 km %217
Landscape blanket share 50 km %217
Land share of disc %10099
Park area within 2 km45 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 34 points.34
KyotoManchester
Score6632
Tourist attractions within 2 km625
Park area within 2 km45 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 4 points.4
KyotoManchester
Score5248
Notable places within 2 km7961
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 16 points.16
KyotoManchester
Score7054
Price level global62.484.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Kyoto leads by 8 points.8
KyotoManchester
Score6254
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm51 mm to 95 mm
Dry months00
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
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2

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). Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoManchester
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 81 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 81 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
2 h 45 m
€327-334
KIX · 81 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
Hong KongHKG
3 h 35 m
€254-314
KIX · 81 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
6 h 25 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
MunichMUC
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 10 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
Abu DhabiAUH
9 h 40 m
€810-860
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 15 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

MeasureKyotoManchester
Official languageJapaneseEnglish
CurrencyYen (JPY)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+9UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112 or 999
Elevation51 m38 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoManchester
City population1,463,723547,627
People per km²1,7684,737
Museums within 10 km7628
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre8963
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.