VacationSelector

Kyoto or Monaco?

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.

Monaco
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

KyotoMonaco
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 56 points.56
KyotoMonaco
Score1773
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km050
Coast distance47 km0 km
Water distance47 km0 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 45 points.45
KyotoMonaco
Score8439
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,023269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2216
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 34 points.34
KyotoMonaco
Score7238
Museums within 10 km13223
Museums within 2 km of centre518
Share of museums within 2 km %3935
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 72 points.72
KyotoMonaco
Score808
Drinking venues within 4 km3,21569
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,36363
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7391
Nightclubs within 4 km267
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 31 points.31
KyotoMonaco
Score2253
Protected land share 50 km %224
Landscape blanket share 50 km %217
Land share of disc %10054
Park area within 2 km45 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 31 points.31
KyotoMonaco
Score6635
Tourist attractions within 2 km6214
Park area within 2 km45 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 12 points.12
KyotoMonaco
Score5264
Notable places within 2 km79154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 12 points.12
KyotoMonaco
Score6274
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months03
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
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5

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). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoMonaco
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 18 km
HelsinkiHEL
9 h 45 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
3 h 15 m
€234-288
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
Abu DhabiAUH
9 h 40 m
€810-860
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
6 h 20 m
no fares
NCE · 18 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

MeasureKyotoMonaco
Official languageJapaneseFrench
CurrencyYen (JPY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation51 m68 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoMonaco
City population1,463,72338,857
People per km²1,76818,503
Museums within 10 km7614
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre8929
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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.