VacationSelector

Kyoto or Prague?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Kyoto
58
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

KyotoPrague
Beaches & swimming. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
KyotoPrague
Score170
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km07
Coast distance47 km10,000 km
Water distance47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 9 points.9
KyotoPrague
Score8475
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,0231,866
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2229
Museums & heritage. Kyoto and Prague are level on 72.
KyotoPrague
Score7272
Museums within 10 km132138
Museums within 2 km of centre51100
Share of museums within 2 km %3972
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 3 points.3
KyotoPrague
Score8077
Drinking venues within 4 km3,2152,248
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,3631,457
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7365
Nightclubs within 4 km26123
Nature & day trips. Prague leads by 23 points.23
KyotoPrague
Score2245
Protected land share 50 km %212
Landscape blanket share 50 km %28
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares183 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 9 points.9
KyotoPrague
Score6675
Tourist attractions within 2 km6254
Park area within 2 km45 hectares183 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 24 points.24
KyotoPrague
Score5276
Notable places within 2 km79310
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Prague leads by 5 points.5
KyotoPrague
Score7075
Price level global62.455.2
Daily budget€107
Year-round weather. Kyoto leads by 1 points.1
KyotoPrague
Score6261
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C2.2 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm22 mm to 80 mm
Dry months07
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
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Prague
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Prague
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). Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoPrague
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 81 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 81 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
1 h 10 m
€126-144
PRG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 25 m
€66-91
PRG · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 10 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 12 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

MeasureKyotoPrague
Official languageJapaneseCzech
CurrencyYen (JPY)Czech Koruna (CZK)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation51 m235 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoPrague
City population1,463,7231,397,880
People per km²1,7682,817
Museums within 10 km7688
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8989
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.