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The pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto
KyotoThe pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera
The Basilica of Superga, Turin
TurinThe Basilica of Superga

Photos: Kyoto by Bert Mulder, Pexels License; Turin by Konstantin Dacosta, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Kyoto or Turin?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Kyoto for

  • wellness
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Kyoto’s own page.

Choose Turin for

  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Turin’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Kyoto 15, Turin 12: Kyoto leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Kyoto 85, Turin 81: Kyoto leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Kyoto 96, Turin 78: Kyoto leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Kyoto 35, Turin 50: Turin leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Kyoto 70, Turin 80: Turin leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Kyoto 96, Turin 84: Kyoto leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Kyoto 68, Turin 57: Kyoto leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Kyoto 72, Turin 68: Kyoto leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Kyoto 72, Turin 58: Kyoto leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Kyoto 50, Turin 58: Turin leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kyoto 60, Turin 65: Turin leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kyoto 70, Turin 40: Kyoto leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kyoto and Turin.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Kyoto
Best match
66match

Wins on wellness and culture and sights with your weighting.

Turin
61match

Wins on nightlife and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Kyoto in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
225 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Turin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
56 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Kyoto's sunshine is measured 43 km from the centre, at Osaka.

Turin has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre). Turin: 1991-2020 normals, Torino / Caselle (15.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKyotoTurin
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 m239 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsTurin Airport (TRN)14 km from centre65 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoTurin
City population1,463,723841,600
People per km²1,7686,474
Museums within 10 km7772
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km44
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months-

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Sources

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. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.