VacationSelector

Kyoto or Manila?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Kyoto
58
match

Wins on places to eat and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Manila
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

KyotoManila
Beaches & swimming. Manila leads by 59 points.59
KyotoManila
Score1776
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km03
Coast distance47 km2 km
Water distance47 km2 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 26 points.26
KyotoManila
Score8458
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,0231,015
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2217
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 22 points.22
KyotoManila
Score7250
Museums within 10 km13277
Museums within 2 km of centre5123
Share of museums within 2 km %3930
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 19 points.19
KyotoManila
Score8061
Drinking venues within 4 km3,2151,082
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363374
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7335
Nightclubs within 4 km2636
Nature & day trips. Manila leads by 7 points.7
KyotoManila
Score2229
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10078
Park area within 2 km45 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 6 points.6
KyotoManila
Score6660
Tourist attractions within 2 km6237
Park area within 2 km45 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Kyoto and Manila are level on 52.
KyotoManila
Score5252
Notable places within 2 km7979
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Manila leads by 20 points.20
KyotoManila
Score7090
Price level global62.433.7
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Kyoto leads by 1 points.1
KyotoManila
Score6261
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C30.5 °C to 34.6 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm24 mm to 564 mm
Dry months04
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
Manila
31
31
33
35
34
33
32
31
31
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Manila
27
27
28
29
30
30
29
29
29
29
28
28
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Manila
26
24
40
36
220
314
487
564
509
297
152
109
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Manila
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Manila
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). Manila: 1991-2020 normals, Science Garden (6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoManila
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 81 km
3 h 45 m
€191-223
MNL · 11 km
TokyoHND, NRT
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 39 km
4 h 10 m
€304-317
MNL · 11 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 81 km
2 h 50 m
€210-218
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 81 km
3 h 15 m
€205-213
MNL · 11 km
Hong KongHKG
3 h 35 m
€254-314
KIX · 81 km
2 h 0 m
€128-135
MNL · 11 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
6 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
3 h 35 m
€159-184
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
6 h 25 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
3 h 30 m
€154-174
MNL · 11 km
San FranciscoSFO
10 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
13 h 55 m
€628-629
1 stop
MNL · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MNL · 11 km
Abu DhabiAUH
9 h 40 m
€810-860
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MNL · 11 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

MeasureKyotoManila
Official languageJapaneseEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyYen (JPY)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation51 m9 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsNinoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)11 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoManila
City population1,463,7231,902,590
People per km²1,76876,104
Museums within 10 km7627
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8939
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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.