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Kyoto or The Hague?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Kyoto
58
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

The Hague
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

KyotoThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 43 points.43
KyotoThe Hague
Score1760
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km034
Coast distance47 km3 km
Water distance47 km3 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 14 points.14
KyotoThe Hague
Score8470
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,023798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2243
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 10 points.10
KyotoThe Hague
Score7262
Museums within 10 km13246
Museums within 2 km of centre5126
Share of museums within 2 km %3957
Unesco sites within 50 km44
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 34 points.34
KyotoThe Hague
Score8046
Drinking venues within 4 km3,215511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7356
Nightclubs within 4 km2619
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 32 points.32
KyotoThe Hague
Score2254
Protected land share 50 km %28
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km45 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 10 points.10
KyotoThe Hague
Score6656
Tourist attractions within 2 km6210
Park area within 2 km45 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km47
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 2 points.2
KyotoThe Hague
Score5254
Notable places within 2 km7986
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 12 points.12
KyotoThe Hague
Score7058
Price level global62.479.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. Kyoto leads by 8 points.8
KyotoThe Hague
Score6254
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm42 mm to 85 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
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

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). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoThe Hague
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 81 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 81 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
TokyoHND, NRT
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 39 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 81 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Hong KongHKG
3 h 35 m
€254-314
KIX · 81 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
6 h 25 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 40 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

MeasureKyotoThe Hague
Official languageJapaneseDutch
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 or 911
Elevation51 m1 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoThe Hague
City population1,463,723548,320
People per km²1,7685,589
Museums within 10 km7654
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km44
Distinct cuisines in the centre8977
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.