VacationSelector

Kyoto or Verona?

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 places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Verona
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families 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.

KyotoVerona
Beaches & swimming. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
KyotoVerona
Score170
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance47 km104 km
Water distance47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 41 points.41
KyotoVerona
Score8443
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,023477
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2213
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 16 points.16
KyotoVerona
Score7256
Museums within 10 km13220
Museums within 2 km of centre5119
Share of museums within 2 km %3995
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 40 points.40
KyotoVerona
Score8040
Drinking venues within 4 km3,215416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363269
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7365
Nightclubs within 4 km269
Nature & day trips. Verona leads by 14 points.14
KyotoVerona
Score2236
Protected land share 50 km %29
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares59 hectares
Good for families. Verona leads by 3 points.3
KyotoVerona
Score6669
Tourist attractions within 2 km6262
Park area within 2 km45 hectares59 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Verona leads by 1 points.1
KyotoVerona
Score5253
Notable places within 2 km7982
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 2 points.2
KyotoVerona
Score7068
Price level global62.464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Verona leads by 3 points.3
KyotoVerona
Score6265
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C6.8 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm38 mm to 85 mm
Dry months01
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
Verona
7
10
14
18
24
28
30
30
25
19
12
8
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Verona
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Verona
43
38
44
72
68
72
62
67
85
77
78
56
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Verona
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
Verona
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
9
7
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). Verona: 1991-2020 normals, Verona / Villafranca (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoVerona
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 81 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 106 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 106 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 106 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
2 h 25 m
€172-262
1 stop
VRN · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
MunichMUC
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
VRN · 10 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
2 h 45 m
€327-334
KIX · 81 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 106 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
1 h 45 m
€207-227
2 stops
VRN · 10 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

MeasureKyotoVerona
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 m59 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsVerona Villafranca Valerio Catullo Airport (VRN)10 km from centre86 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoVerona
City population1,463,723255,588
People per km²1,7681,285
Museums within 10 km7618
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre8935
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.