VacationSelector

Kyoto or Venice?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Kyoto
58
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Venice
57
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.

KyotoVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 52 points.52
KyotoVenice
Score1769
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km020
Coast distance47 km4 km
Water distance47 km4 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 39 points.39
KyotoVenice
Score8445
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,023750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2210
Museums & heritage. Kyoto and Venice are level on 72.
KyotoVenice
Score7272
Museums within 10 km13257
Museums within 2 km of centre5145
Share of museums within 2 km %3979
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 45 points.45
KyotoVenice
Score8035
Drinking venues within 4 km3,215342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7389
Nightclubs within 4 km263
Nature & day trips. Kyoto leads by 5 points.5
KyotoVenice
Score2217
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km45 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 9 points.9
KyotoVenice
Score6657
Tourist attractions within 2 km6272
Park area within 2 km45 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km43
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 31 points.31
KyotoVenice
Score5283
Notable places within 2 km79464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 2 points.2
KyotoVenice
Score7068
Price level global62.464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 4 points.4
KyotoVenice
Score6266
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months02
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoVenice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 81 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
2 h 20 m
€148-150
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
MunichMUC
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
1 h 5 m
€268-289
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 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

MeasureKyotoVenice
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 m2 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoVenice
City population1,463,723250,369
People per km²1,768602
Museums within 10 km7652
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre8946
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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.