Kyoto
City in Japan: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Pedestrian road with pavements, paper umbrellas and people in yukata, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, Japan: Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Kyoto is a city in Japan. About 1.5 million people live in the city proper, making it the 9th largest city of Japan in our atlas.
It lies at 35.02° N, 135.75° E, about 50 m (164 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Tokyo time zone.
Location
Red dot: Kyoto. Green dots: other major cities of Japan. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Kyoto has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa). The warmest month is usually Aug, with average highs near 29°C (85°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about -1°C (30°F). Around 1,656 mm (65 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Jul.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in JapanNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Osaka · 43 km
- Sakai · 55 km
- Kobe · 64 km
- Nagoya · 106 km
- Hiroshima · 308 km
- Yokohama · 357 km
- Kawasaki · 365 km
- Tokyo · 366 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1857910 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q34600 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Pedestrian road with pavements, paper umbrellas and people in yukata, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, Japan: Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Sanjo-Ohashi Bridge from east: そらみみ, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto 2010: Wiiii, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- KyotoBotanicalGarden: PlusMinus, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Nishikyogoku stadium20130428: Kanko3131, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art 1933 ⅱ: Kakidai, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Minami-za Theatre, Kyoto (Jan 2020): Chainwit., CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Kyoto Railway Museum, enkei: Saigen Jiro, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Kyoto City zoo, East Entrace. 京都市動物園：東出入口: Kamigata0, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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