VacationSelector

Kyoto or Mexico City?

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

Your match

Kyoto
58
match

Wins on places to eat and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
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.

KyotoMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
KyotoMexico City
Score170
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km04
Coast distance47 km247 km
Water distance47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 18 points.18
KyotoMexico City
Score8466
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,0232,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2215
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 7 points.7
KyotoMexico City
Score7279
Museums within 10 km132138
Museums within 2 km of centre5165
Share of museums within 2 km %3947
Unesco sites within 50 km46
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 2 points.2
KyotoMexico City
Score8078
Drinking venues within 4 km3,2152,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7343
Nightclubs within 4 km26198
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 41 points.41
KyotoMexico City
Score2263
Protected land share 50 km %230
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 16 points.16
KyotoMexico City
Score6650
Tourist attractions within 2 km6223
Park area within 2 km45 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 2 points.2
KyotoMexico City
Score5254
Notable places within 2 km7988
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 6 points.6
KyotoMexico City
Score7076
Price level global62.454.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 28 points.28
KyotoMexico City
Score6290
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm3 mm to 186 mm
Dry months06
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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7

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). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoMexico City
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 81 km
14 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
TokyoHND, NRT
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 39 km
14 h 0 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
3 h 35 m
€248-282
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
12 h 55 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
2 h 45 m
€327-334
KIX · 81 km
15 h 20 m
€1,089-1205
3 stops
MEX · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 10 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
4 h 30 m
€367-420
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
10 h 0 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
5 h 20 m
€321-367
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 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

MeasureKyotoMexico City
Official languageJapaneseSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyYen (JPY)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation51 m2,240 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoMexico City
City population1,463,7239,209,944
People per km²1,7686,202
Museums within 10 km76108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km46
Distinct cuisines in the centre8950
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.