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The Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls, Antibes
AntibesThe Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls
Shitennō-ji temple, Osaka
OsakaShitennō-ji temple

Photos: Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Osaka by Sarmat Batagov, Pexels License.

Antibes or Osaka?

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 Antibes for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Osaka for

  • shopping
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Osaka’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. Antibes 80, Osaka 34: Antibes leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Antibes 50, Osaka 91: Osaka leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Antibes 42, Osaka 63: Osaka leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Antibes 40, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antibes 70, Osaka 58: Antibes leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Antibes 88, Osaka 97: Osaka leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Antibes 55, Osaka 88: Osaka leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Antibes 62, Osaka 90: Osaka leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Antibes 35, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 45 points.
Affordability. Antibes 30, Osaka 60: Osaka leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antibes 35, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antibes 40, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antibes and Osaka.

Your match

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

Antibes
52match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Osaka
Best match
73match

Wins on shopping and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Antibes in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Osaka in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
175 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AntibesOsaka

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntibesOsaka
Official languageFrenchJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation0 m20 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntibesOsaka
City population77,6372,751,862
People per km²2,93012,340
Museums within 10 km1444
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km26
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 months

Where else could you go?

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.