VacationSelector

Kyoto or Sorrento?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Sorrento
37
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.

KyotoSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 60 points.60
KyotoSorrento
Score1777
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km078
Coast distance47 km0 km
Water distance47 km0 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 65 points.65
KyotoSorrento
Score8419
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,023249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km225
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 35 points.35
KyotoSorrento
Score7237
Museums within 10 km1327
Museums within 2 km of centre514
Share of museums within 2 km %3957
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 58 points.58
KyotoSorrento
Score8022
Drinking venues within 4 km3,215179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7373
Nightclubs within 4 km262
Nature & day trips. Sorrento leads by 1 points.1
KyotoSorrento
Score2223
Protected land share 50 km %27
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10042
Park area within 2 km45 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 61 points.61
KyotoSorrento
Score665
Tourist attractions within 2 km622
Park area within 2 km45 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 42 points.42
KyotoSorrento
Score5210
Notable places within 2 km797
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 2 points.2
KyotoSorrento
Score7068
Price level global62.464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 11 points.11
KyotoSorrento
Score6273
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm17 mm to 159 mm
Dry months03
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
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sorrento
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
Sorrento
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
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). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoSorrento
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
2 h 0 m
€132-252
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MunichMUC
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
NAP · 30 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

MeasureKyotoSorrento
Official languageJapaneseItalian
CurrencyYen (JPY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation51 m50 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoSorrento
City population1,463,72315,407
People per km²1,7681,541
Museums within 10 km765
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre8911
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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.