VacationSelector

Kyoto or Philadelphia?

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 value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

Philadelphia
51
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.

KyotoPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
KyotoPhiladelphia
Score170
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance47 km13 km
Water distance47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 7 points.7
KyotoPhiladelphia
Score8477
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,0231,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2235
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 12 points.12
KyotoPhiladelphia
Score7260
Museums within 10 km13289
Museums within 2 km of centre5148
Share of museums within 2 km %3954
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 21 points.21
KyotoPhiladelphia
Score8059
Drinking venues within 4 km3,215930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7362
Nightclubs within 4 km2641
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 27 points.27
KyotoPhiladelphia
Score2249
Protected land share 50 km %214
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10089
Park area within 2 km45 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 13 points.13
KyotoPhiladelphia
Score6653
Tourist attractions within 2 km6216
Park area within 2 km45 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 2 points.2
KyotoPhiladelphia
Score5254
Notable places within 2 km7988
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 27 points.27
KyotoPhiladelphia
Score7043
Price level global62.4100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Kyoto leads by 2 points.2
KyotoPhiladelphia
Score6260
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm69 mm to 112 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

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). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoPhiladelphia
TokyoHND, NRT
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 39 km
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 140 km
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 81 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
12 h 55 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DetroitDTW, DET, YIP
13 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
San FranciscoSFO
10 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
HonoluluHNL
8 h 25 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
Hong KongHKG
3 h 35 m
€254-314
KIX · 81 km
15 h 55 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
6 h 25 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
18 h 45 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
DohaDOH
10 h 0 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
PHL · 11 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

MeasureKyotoPhiladelphia
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 m12 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoPhiladelphia
City population1,463,7231,603,797
People per km²1,7684,339
Museums within 10 km7654
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8975
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.