VacationSelector

Kyoto or Valencia?

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

Your match

Kyoto
58
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
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.

KyotoValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 50 points.50
KyotoValencia
Score1767
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km012
Coast distance47 km3 km
Water distance47 km3 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 6 points.6
KyotoValencia
Score8478
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,0231,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2233
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
KyotoValencia
Score7255
Museums within 10 km13259
Museums within 2 km of centre5126
Share of museums within 2 km %3944
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 10 points.10
KyotoValencia
Score8070
Drinking venues within 4 km3,2151,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7363
Nightclubs within 4 km26108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 31 points.31
KyotoValencia
Score2253
Protected land share 50 km %210
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10064
Park area within 2 km45 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 24 points.24
KyotoValencia
Score6642
Tourist attractions within 2 km6212
Park area within 2 km45 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Kyoto and Valencia are level on 52.
KyotoValencia
Score5252
Notable places within 2 km7978
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 1 points.1
KyotoValencia
Score7071
Price level global62.460.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 22 points.22
KyotoValencia
Score6284
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months08
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Valencia
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
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoValencia
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 20 m
€127-155
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
MunichMUC
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
2 h 20 m
€196-284
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
VLC · 9 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

MeasureKyotoValencia
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 m15 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoValencia
City population1,463,723840,792
People per km²1,7686,242
Museums within 10 km7646
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre8992
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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.