VacationSelector

Kyoto or New Orleans?

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 value for money with your weighting.

New Orleans
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

KyotoNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. New Orleans leads by 22 points.22
KyotoNew Orleans
Score1739
Swim season months57
Beaches 10 km03
Coast distance47 km21 km
Water distance47 km17 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 23 points.23
KyotoNew Orleans
Score8461
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,023803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2225
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 27 points.27
KyotoNew Orleans
Score7245
Museums within 10 km13242
Museums within 2 km of centre5130
Share of museums within 2 km %3971
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 26 points.26
KyotoNew Orleans
Score8054
Drinking venues within 4 km3,215704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7370
Nightclubs within 4 km2641
Nature & day trips. New Orleans leads by 3 points.3
KyotoNew Orleans
Score2225
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10089
Park area within 2 km45 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 20 points.20
KyotoNew Orleans
Score6646
Tourist attractions within 2 km6222
Park area within 2 km45 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 12 points.12
KyotoNew Orleans
Score5240
Notable places within 2 km7940
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 27 points.27
KyotoNew Orleans
Score7043
Price level global62.4100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 6 points.6
KyotoNew Orleans
Score6268
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm94 mm to 194 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
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
New Orleans
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). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromKyotoNew Orleans
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 55 m
€254-325
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
12 h 55 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 15 m
€208-268
1 stop
MSY · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
San FranciscoSFO
10 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 10 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
DetroitDTW, DET, YIP
13 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
MinneapolisMSP, STP
12 h 20 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MSY · 18 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
10 h 10 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
MSY · 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 2026-08 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

MeasureKyotoNew Orleans
Official languageJapanese
CurrencyYen (JPY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation51 m-2 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoNew Orleans
City population1,463,723383,997
People per km²1,768423
Museums within 10 km7616
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8939
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months7 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.