VacationSelector

Kyoto or Nuremberg?

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.

Nuremberg
48
match

Wins on 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.

KyotoNuremberg
Beaches & swimming. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
KyotoNuremberg
Score170
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km06
Coast distance47 km430 km
Water distance47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 20 points.20
KyotoNuremberg
Score8464
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,023700
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2233
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 20 points.20
KyotoNuremberg
Score7252
Museums within 10 km13253
Museums within 2 km of centre5129
Share of museums within 2 km %3955
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 32 points.32
KyotoNuremberg
Score8048
Drinking venues within 4 km3,215523
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363427
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7382
Nightclubs within 4 km2636
Nature & day trips. Nuremberg leads by 27 points.27
KyotoNuremberg
Score2249
Protected land share 50 km %242
Landscape blanket share 50 km %241
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares31 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 7 points.7
KyotoNuremberg
Score6659
Tourist attractions within 2 km6259
Park area within 2 km45 hectares31 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 8 points.8
KyotoNuremberg
Score5244
Notable places within 2 km7950
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 10 points.10
KyotoNuremberg
Score7060
Price level global62.475.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Kyoto leads by 2 points.2
KyotoNuremberg
Score6260
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C3.5 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm33 mm to 77 mm
Dry months04
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
Nuremberg
4
5
10
15
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Nuremberg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Nuremberg
40
33
39
33
61
64
77
60
49
50
47
49
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Nuremberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Nuremberg
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1

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). Nuremberg: 1991-2020 normals, Nuernberg (5.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoNuremberg
BangkokBKK, DMK
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 81 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 81 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
2 h 35 m
€139-243
NUE · 5 km
TokyoHND, NRT
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 39 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
55 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 81 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
Abu DhabiAUH
9 h 40 m
€810-860
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
6 h 5 m
no fares
MUC · 133 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

MeasureKyotoNuremberg
Official languageJapaneseGerman
CurrencyYen (JPY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation51 m209 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsNuremberg Airport (NUE)5 km from centre54 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoNuremberg
City population1,463,723529,508
People per km²1,7682,839
Museums within 10 km7650
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8971
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. 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. 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.