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The pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto
KyotoThe pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Kyoto by Bert Mulder, Pexels License; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Kyoto or Marmaris?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Kyoto for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Kyoto’s own page.

Choose Marmaris for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Marmaris’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Kyoto 15, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Kyoto 85, Marmaris 40: Kyoto leads by 45 points.
Culture & sights. Kyoto 96, Marmaris 18: Kyoto leads by 78 points.
Nightlife. Kyoto 35, Marmaris 60: Marmaris leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Kyoto 70, Marmaris 72: Marmaris leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Kyoto 96, Marmaris 65: Kyoto leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Kyoto 68, Marmaris 62: Kyoto leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Kyoto 72, Marmaris 55: Kyoto leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Kyoto 72, Marmaris 38: Kyoto leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Kyoto 50, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kyoto 60, Marmaris 12: Kyoto leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kyoto 70, Marmaris 50: Kyoto leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kyoto and Marmaris.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Kyoto
Best match
66match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Marmaris
51match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Kyoto in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
225 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Marmaris in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Kyoto's sunshine is measured 43 km from the centre, at Osaka.

Marmaris's temperatures are measured 49 km from the centre, at Dalaman.

Marmaris has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKyotoMarmaris
Official languageJapaneseTurkish
CurrencyYen (JPY)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+3
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation51 m7 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoMarmaris
City population1,463,72397,818
People per km²1,768111
Museums within 10 km771
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months6 months

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Sources

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. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.