VacationSelector

Kyoto or Zagreb?

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 good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Zagreb
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money 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.

KyotoZagreb
Beaches & swimming. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
KyotoZagreb
Score170
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km08
Coast distance47 km117 km
Water distance47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 32 points.32
KyotoZagreb
Score8452
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,023374
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2227
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 27 points.27
KyotoZagreb
Score7245
Museums within 10 km13241
Museums within 2 km of centre5140
Share of museums within 2 km %3998
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 19 points.19
KyotoZagreb
Score8061
Drinking venues within 4 km3,2151,009
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363571
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7357
Nightclubs within 4 km2663
Nature & day trips. Zagreb leads by 12 points.12
KyotoZagreb
Score2234
Protected land share 50 km %29
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km45 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 38 points.38
KyotoZagreb
Score6628
Tourist attractions within 2 km627
Park area within 2 km45 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Zagreb leads by 8 points.8
KyotoZagreb
Score5260
Notable places within 2 km79122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zagreb leads by 10 points.10
KyotoZagreb
Score7080
Price level global62.448.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Kyoto and Zagreb are level on 62.
KyotoZagreb
Score6262
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 mm47 mm to 104 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
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Zagreb
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Zagreb
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Zagreb
2
4
5
6
8
9
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). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoZagreb
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 81 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
2 h 0 m
€153-254
ZAG · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MunichMUC
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DohaDOH
10 h 0 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 10 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 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

MeasureKyotoZagreb
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 m127 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoZagreb
City population1,463,723767,131
People per km²1,768
Museums within 10 km7627
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8942
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.