VacationSelector

Kyoto or Toledo?

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 nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Toledo
40
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

KyotoToledo
Beaches & swimming. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
KyotoToledo
Score170
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance47 km320 km
Water distance47 km—
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 60 points.60
KyotoToledo
Score8424
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,023249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km227
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 26 points.26
KyotoToledo
Score7246
Museums within 10 km13219
Museums within 2 km of centre5119
Share of museums within 2 km %39100
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 63 points.63
KyotoToledo
Score8017
Drinking venues within 4 km3,215120
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363115
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7396
Nightclubs within 4 km265
Nature & day trips. Toledo leads by 6 points.6
KyotoToledo
Score2228
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 12 points.12
KyotoToledo
Score6654
Tourist attractions within 2 km6232
Park area within 2 km45 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 6 points.6
KyotoToledo
Score5246
Notable places within 2 km7955
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toledo leads by 1 points.1
KyotoToledo
Score7071
Price level global62.460.8
Daily budget—€122
Year-round weather. Toledo leads by 12 points.12
KyotoToledo
Score6274
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C11.9 °C to 35.1 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm6 mm to 49 mm
Dry months011
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
Toledo
12
14
18
21
25
31
35
35
29
23
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Toledo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Toledo
26
25
33
40
39
19
6
9
21
49
38
35
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Toledo
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
Toledo
5
6
7
8
10
11
13
12
9
7
5
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). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoToledo
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 81 km
12 h 25 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 80 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 80 km
TokyoHND, NRT
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 39 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 81 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 80 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 81 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
MAD · 80 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
2 h 20 m
€121-231
1 stop
MAD · 80 km
DohaDOH
10 h 0 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
MAD · 80 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

MeasureKyotoToledo
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 m523 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoToledo
City population1,463,72387,216
People per km²1,768376
Museums within 10 km7613
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre8913
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.