VacationSelector

Kyoto or West Palm Beach?

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 nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
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.

KyotoWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 71 points.71
KyotoWest Palm Beach
Score1788
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km010
Coast distance47 km0 km
Water distance47 km0 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 47 points.47
KyotoWest Palm Beach
Score8437
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,023262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2214
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 55 points.55
KyotoWest Palm Beach
Score7217
Museums within 10 km1325
Museums within 2 km of centre513
Share of museums within 2 km %3960
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 60 points.60
KyotoWest Palm Beach
Score8020
Drinking venues within 4 km3,215132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,36390
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7368
Nightclubs within 4 km2610
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 47 points.47
KyotoWest Palm Beach
Score2269
Protected land share 50 km %215
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10045
Park area within 2 km45 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 45 points.45
KyotoWest Palm Beach
Score6621
Tourist attractions within 2 km623
Park area within 2 km45 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 40 points.40
KyotoWest Palm Beach
Score5212
Notable places within 2 km798
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto leads by 27 points.27
KyotoWest Palm Beach
Score7043
Price level global62.4100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 13 points.13
KyotoWest Palm Beach
Score6275
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm67 mm to 217 mm
Dry months00
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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
San FranciscoSFO
10 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
5 h 35 m
€349-373
2 stops
FLL · 72 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 10 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
12 h 55 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
DetroitDTW, DET, YIP
13 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MinneapolisMSP, STP
12 h 20 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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

MeasureKyotoWest Palm Beach
Official languageJapanese
CurrencyYen (JPY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation51 m6 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoWest Palm Beach
City population1,463,723117,415
People per km²1,768786
Museums within 10 km764
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8918
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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. 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.