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The pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto
KyotoThe pagoda at Kiyomizu-dera
People's Square (Narodni trg), Zadar
ZadarPeople's Square (Narodni trg)

Photos: Kyoto by Bert Mulder, Pexels License; Zadar by Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, cropped.

Kyoto or Zadar?

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

  • shopping
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Zadar for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Zadar’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, Zadar 72: Zadar leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. Kyoto 85, Zadar 45: Kyoto leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Kyoto 96, Zadar 55: Kyoto leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Kyoto 35, Zadar 38: Zadar leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Kyoto 70, Zadar 82: Zadar leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Kyoto 96, Zadar 70: Kyoto leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Kyoto 68, Zadar 55: Kyoto leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Kyoto 72, Zadar 58: Kyoto leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Kyoto 72, Zadar 27: Kyoto leads by 45 points.
Affordability. Kyoto 50, Zadar 52: Zadar leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kyoto 60, Zadar 28: Kyoto leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kyoto 70, Zadar 35: Kyoto leads by 35 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kyoto and Zadar.

Your match

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

Kyoto
Best match
66match

Wins on shopping and culture and sights with your weighting.

Zadar
51match

Wins on beaches and 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

Zadar in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
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.

Zadar 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). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKyotoZadar
Official languageJapaneseCroatian
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 m5 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoZadar
City population1,463,72370,779
People per km²1,768-
Museums within 10 km771
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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. 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.