VacationSelector

Kyoto or Vienna?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Vienna
59
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

KyotoVienna
Beaches & swimming. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
KyotoVienna
Score170
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km022
Coast distance47 km10,000 km
Water distance47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 7 points.7
KyotoVienna
Score8477
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,0231,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2237
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 9 points.9
KyotoVienna
Score7281
Museums within 10 km132192
Museums within 2 km of centre51110
Share of museums within 2 km %3957
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 6 points.6
KyotoVienna
Score8074
Drinking venues within 4 km3,2151,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,3631,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7356
Nightclubs within 4 km26108
Nature & day trips. Vienna leads by 10 points.10
KyotoVienna
Score2232
Protected land share 50 km %24
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 3 points.3
KyotoVienna
Score6669
Tourist attractions within 2 km6246
Park area within 2 km45 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km44
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 23 points.23
KyotoVienna
Score5275
Notable places within 2 km79287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 11 points.11
KyotoVienna
Score7059
Price level global62.476.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Kyoto leads by 1 points.1
KyotoVienna
Score6261
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm38 mm to 80 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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
4
2
2

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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoVienna
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 81 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
TokyoHND, NRT
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 39 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 81 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 81 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 18 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 2026-08 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

MeasureKyotoVienna
Official languageJapaneseGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m151 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoVienna
City population1,463,7232,028,289
People per km²1,7684,890
Museums within 10 km76152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre89113
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.