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The pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto
KyotoThe pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera
Skiers in front of the big timber lodge at the resort, Winter Park, Colorado
Winter Park, ColoradoSkiers in front of the big timber lodge at the resort

Photos: Kyoto by Bert Mulder, Pexels License; Winter Park, Colorado by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Kyoto or Winter Park, Colorado?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Kyoto for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Kyoto’s own page.

Choose Winter Park, Colorado for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Winter Park, Colorado’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Kyoto 15, Winter Park, Colorado 5: Kyoto leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Kyoto 85, Winter Park, Colorado 24: Kyoto leads by 61 points.
Culture & sights. Kyoto 96, Winter Park, Colorado 6: Kyoto leads by 90 points.
Nightlife. Kyoto 35, Winter Park, Colorado 15: Kyoto leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Kyoto 70, Winter Park, Colorado 88: Winter Park, Colorado leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Kyoto 96, Winter Park, Colorado 38: Kyoto leads by 58 points.
Good for families. Kyoto 68, Winter Park, Colorado 62: Kyoto leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Kyoto 72, Winter Park, Colorado 42: Kyoto leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Kyoto 72, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Kyoto leads by 60 points.
Affordability. Kyoto 50, Winter Park, Colorado 25: Kyoto leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kyoto 60, Winter Park, Colorado 12: Kyoto leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kyoto 70, Winter Park, Colorado 46: Kyoto leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kyoto and Winter Park, Colorado.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Kyoto
Best match
66match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

Winter Park, Colorado
31match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Kyoto in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
225 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Winter Park, Colorado in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Kyoto's sunshine is measured 43 km from the centre, at Osaka.

Winter Park, Colorado's temperatures are measured 90 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Winter Park, Colorado's station stands 269 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Winter Park, Colorado has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre). Winter Park, Colorado: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (89.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKyotoWinter Park, Colorado
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-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation51 m2,759 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)95 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoWinter Park, Colorado
City population1,463,7231,033
People per km²1,76824
Museums within 10 km770
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months-

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Sources

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. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.