VacationSelector

Kyoto or Montreal?

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 museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

Montreal
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration 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.

KyotoMontreal
Beaches & swimming. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
KyotoMontreal
Score170
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km07
Coast distance47 km276 km
Water distance47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 10 points.10
KyotoMontreal
Score8474
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,0231,016
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2249
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 35 points.35
KyotoMontreal
Score7237
Museums within 10 km13239
Museums within 2 km of centre5119
Share of museums within 2 km %3949
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 18 points.18
KyotoMontreal
Score8062
Drinking venues within 4 km3,2151,012
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363493
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7349
Nightclubs within 4 km2674
Nature & day trips. Montreal leads by 14 points.14
KyotoMontreal
Score2236
Protected land share 50 km %22
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares189 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 16 points.16
KyotoMontreal
Score6650
Tourist attractions within 2 km6211
Park area within 2 km45 hectares189 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Montreal leads by 4 points.4
KyotoMontreal
Score5256
Notable places within 2 km7998
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 16 points.16
KyotoMontreal
Score7054
Price level global62.484
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Kyoto leads by 12 points.12
KyotoMontreal
Score6250
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm69 mm to 121 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
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Montreal
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Montreal
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
3

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). Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoMontreal
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 81 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 20 m
€231-372
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
TokyoHND, NRT
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 39 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 10 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
1 h 15 m
€133-276
YUL · 16 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
12 h 55 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
7 h 35 m
€591-764
2 stops
YUL · 16 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
10 h 0 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
5 h 0 m
€190-216
2 stops
YUL · 16 km
MinneapolisMSP, STP
12 h 20 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
YUL · 16 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

MeasureKyotoMontreal
Official languageJapaneseFrench, English
CurrencyYen (JPY)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation51 m31 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoMontreal
City population1,463,7231,895,211
People per km²1,7683,806
Museums within 10 km7637
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8997
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.