VacationSelector

Kyoto or Toronto?

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 museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Toronto
54
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.

KyotoToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 26 points.26
KyotoToronto
Score1743
Swim season months51
Beaches 10 km058
Coast distance47 km533 km
Water distance47 km5 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 2 points.2
KyotoToronto
Score8482
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,0232,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2239
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 29 points.29
KyotoToronto
Score7243
Museums within 10 km13235
Museums within 2 km of centre5125
Share of museums within 2 km %3971
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 11 points.11
KyotoToronto
Score8069
Drinking venues within 4 km3,2151,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7364
Nightclubs within 4 km26103
Nature & day trips. Toronto leads by 4 points.4
KyotoToronto
Score2226
Protected land share 50 km %22
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 9 points.9
KyotoToronto
Score6657
Tourist attractions within 2 km6223
Park area within 2 km45 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 9 points.9
KyotoToronto
Score5261
Notable places within 2 km79128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 16 points.16
KyotoToronto
Score7054
Price level global62.484
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Kyoto leads by 7 points.7
KyotoToronto
Score6255
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm51 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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Toronto
No sunshine record

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). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoToronto
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 81 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
TokyoHND, NRT
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 39 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 81 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
San FranciscoSFO
10 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
2 h 45 m
€327-334
KIX · 81 km
13 h 5 m
€1,024-1087
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km
HonoluluHNL
8 h 25 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 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

MeasureKyotoToronto
Official languageJapaneseFrench, English
CurrencyYen (JPY)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation51 m76 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoToronto
City population1,463,7232,794,356
People per km²1,7684,434
Museums within 10 km7632
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre89102
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months1 month

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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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.