VacationSelector

Kyoto or Paphos?

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.

Paphos
46
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.

KyotoPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 62 points.62
KyotoPaphos
Score1779
Swim season months56
Beaches 10 km027
Coast distance47 km1 km
Water distance47 km1 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 40 points.40
KyotoPaphos
Score8444
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,023251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2222
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 50 points.50
KyotoPaphos
Score7222
Museums within 10 km1328
Museums within 2 km of centre513
Share of museums within 2 km %3938
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 50 points.50
KyotoPaphos
Score8030
Drinking venues within 4 km3,215224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7372
Nightclubs within 4 km2611
Nature & day trips. Paphos leads by 1 points.1
KyotoPaphos
Score2223
Protected land share 50 km %22
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10033
Park area within 2 km45 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 24 points.24
KyotoPaphos
Score6642
Tourist attractions within 2 km6230
Park area within 2 km45 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 33 points.33
KyotoPaphos
Score5219
Notable places within 2 km7912
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto and Paphos are level on 70.
KyotoPaphos
Score7070
Price level global62.461.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 24 points.24
KyotoPaphos
Score6286
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months08
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
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Paphos
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). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
Abu DhabiAUH
9 h 40 m
€810-860
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
LCA · 110 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

MeasureKyotoPaphos
Official languageJapaneseTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyYen (JPY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation51 m72 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoPaphos
City population1,463,72335,961
People per km²1,7681,987
Museums within 10 km764
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre8936
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months6 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.