VacationSelector

Kyoto or Warsaw?

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, 2 points apart

Kyoto
58
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Warsaw
60
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

KyotoWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
KyotoWarsaw
Score170
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km026
Coast distance47 km238 km
Water distance47 km—
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 12 points.12
KyotoWarsaw
Score8472
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,0231,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2234
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 9 points.9
KyotoWarsaw
Score7263
Museums within 10 km132107
Museums within 2 km of centre5160
Share of museums within 2 km %3956
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 18 points.18
KyotoWarsaw
Score8062
Drinking venues within 4 km3,2151,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7364
Nightclubs within 4 km26104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 33 points.33
KyotoWarsaw
Score2255
Protected land share 50 km %227
Landscape blanket share 50 km %219
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 4 points.4
KyotoWarsaw
Score6670
Tourist attractions within 2 km6242
Park area within 2 km45 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km45
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 24 points.24
KyotoWarsaw
Score5276
Notable places within 2 km79299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 9 points.9
KyotoWarsaw
Score7079
Price level global62.449
Daily budget—€133
Year-round weather. Kyoto leads by 3 points.3
KyotoWarsaw
Score6259
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months06
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
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
2
1

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). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoWarsaw
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 81 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
TokyoHND, NRT
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 39 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 81 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 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

MeasureKyotoWarsaw
Official languageJapanesePolish
CurrencyYen (JPY)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation51 m118 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoWarsaw
City population1,463,7231,862,402
People per km²1,7683,601
Museums within 10 km76117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8976
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.