VacationSelector

Kyoto or Seville?

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 places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Seville
54
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

KyotoSeville
Beaches & swimming. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
KyotoSeville
Score170
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance47 km65 km
Water distance47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 18 points.18
KyotoSeville
Score8466
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,0231,370
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2222
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 16 points.16
KyotoSeville
Score7256
Museums within 10 km13250
Museums within 2 km of centre5140
Share of museums within 2 km %3980
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 18 points.18
KyotoSeville
Score8062
Drinking venues within 4 km3,2151,089
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363679
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7362
Nightclubs within 4 km2657
Nature & day trips. Seville leads by 15 points.15
KyotoSeville
Score2237
Protected land share 50 km %28
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 1 points.1
KyotoSeville
Score6665
Tourist attractions within 2 km6247
Park area within 2 km45 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km42
Sights concentration. Seville leads by 3 points.3
KyotoSeville
Score5255
Notable places within 2 km7992
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seville leads by 1 points.1
KyotoSeville
Score7071
Price level global62.460.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Seville leads by 13 points.13
KyotoSeville
Score6275
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C16.3 °C to 36.2 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm1 mm to 78 mm
Dry months05
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
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Seville
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Seville
6
7
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
8
6
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). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoSeville
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
2 h 50 m
€180-230
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MunichMUC
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
XRY · 72 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
XRY · 72 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

MeasureKyotoSeville
Official languageJapaneseSpanish
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 m18 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoSeville
City population1,463,723689,423
People per km²1,7684,896
Museums within 10 km7624
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8952
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.