VacationSelector

Kyoto or Tromso?

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.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

KyotoTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 35 points.35
KyotoTromso
Score1752
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km014
Coast distance47 km0 km
Water distance47 km0 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 60 points.60
KyotoTromso
Score8424
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,02385
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2216
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 49 points.49
KyotoTromso
Score7223
Museums within 10 km13210
Museums within 2 km of centre518
Share of museums within 2 km %3980
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 73 points.73
KyotoTromso
Score807
Drinking venues within 4 km3,21567
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,36361
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7391
Nightclubs within 4 km265
Nature & day trips. Kyoto leads by 11 points.11
KyotoTromso
Score2211
Protected land share 50 km %29
Landscape blanket share 50 km %29
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km45 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 52 points.52
KyotoTromso
Score6614
Tourist attractions within 2 km629
Park area within 2 km45 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 24 points.24
KyotoTromso
Score5228
Notable places within 2 km7920
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 16 points.16
KyotoTromso
Score7054
Price level global62.485.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Kyoto leads by 29 points.29
KyotoTromso
Score6233
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm56 mm to 128 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
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

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). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoTromso
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
9 h 45 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MunichMUC
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
TOS · 4 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

MeasureKyotoTromso
Official languageJapaneseNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyYen (JPY)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
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 119Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation51 m20 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoTromso
City population1,463,72379,943
People per km²1,76832
Museums within 10 km768
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8923
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.