VacationSelector

Kyoto or Singapore?

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 museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

Singapore
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

KyotoSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 83 points.83
KyotoSingapore
Score17100
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km042
Coast distance47 km2 km
Water distance47 km2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 3 points.3
KyotoSingapore
Score8487
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,0234,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2231
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 22 points.22
KyotoSingapore
Score7250
Museums within 10 km13257
Museums within 2 km of centre5126
Share of museums within 2 km %3946
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 6 points.6
KyotoSingapore
Score8074
Drinking venues within 4 km3,2151,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,3631,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7371
Nightclubs within 4 km2677
Nature & day trips. Singapore leads by 12 points.12
KyotoSingapore
Score2234
Protected land share 50 km %21
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km45 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 2 points.2
KyotoSingapore
Score6668
Tourist attractions within 2 km6228
Park area within 2 km45 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km45
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 14 points.14
KyotoSingapore
Score5266
Notable places within 2 km79172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto and Singapore are level on 70.
KyotoSingapore
Score7070
Price level global62.462
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Kyoto and Singapore are level on 62.
KyotoSingapore
Score6262
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm109 mm to 329 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
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Singapore
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5
5
4
4

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). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoSingapore
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 81 km
6 h 5 m
€240-286
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
TokyoHND, NRT
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 39 km
6 h 55 m
€310-338
SIN · 17 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 81 km
5 h 10 m
€214-241
SIN · 17 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
6 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
1 h 0 m
€85-88
SIN · 17 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 81 km
2 h 20 m
€157-169
SIN · 17 km
SapporoCTS, OKD
1 h 55 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ManilaMNL
3 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
18 h 45 m
€835
SIN · 17 km
Abu DhabiAUH
9 h 40 m
€810-860
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
SIN · 17 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

MeasureKyotoSingapore
Official languageJapaneseEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyYen (JPY)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation51 m21 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoSingapore
City population1,463,7235,866,139
People per km²1,7688,158
Museums within 10 km7640
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre89107
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.