VacationSelector

Kyoto or Orlando?

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.

Orlando
40
match

Wins on good for families 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.

KyotoOrlando
Beaches & swimming. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
KyotoOrlando
Score170
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance47 km68 km
Water distance47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 36 points.36
KyotoOrlando
Score8448
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,023365
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2221
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 64 points.64
KyotoOrlando
Score728
Museums within 10 km13211
Museums within 2 km of centre512
Share of museums within 2 km %3918
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 39 points.39
KyotoOrlando
Score8041
Drinking venues within 4 km3,215344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363216
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7363
Nightclubs within 4 km2639
Nature & day trips. Orlando leads by 22 points.22
KyotoOrlando
Score2244
Protected land share 50 km %215
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Orlando leads by 23 points.23
KyotoOrlando
Score6689
Tourist attractions within 2 km62
Park area within 2 km45 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km420
Theme park ground ha 30 km8,853
Zoo aquarium 15 km2
Scoring variantfamilyScoreThemeGroundLed
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 36 points.36
KyotoOrlando
Score5216
Notable places within 2 km7910
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 27 points.27
KyotoOrlando
Score7043
Price level global62.4100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Orlando leads by 12 points.12
KyotoOrlando
Score6274
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C22.1 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm46 mm to 203 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
Orlando
22
24
26
29
31
33
33
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Orlando
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Orlando
63
52
77
66
101
203
189
195
160
88
46
63
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Orlando
11
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
Orlando
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). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoOrlando
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 25 m
€158-197
MCO · 14 km
TokyoHND, NRT
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 39 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 10 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
12 h 55 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 35 m
€157-165
MCO · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
8 h 50 m
€483-548
1 stop
MCO · 14 km
MinneapolisMSP, STP
12 h 20 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
DetroitDTW, DET, YIP
13 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
MCO · 14 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 14 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

MeasureKyotoOrlando
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-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation51 m34 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoOrlando
City population1,463,723334,854
People per km²1,7681,086
Museums within 10 km7611
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8930
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.