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Athens or Osaka?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Osaka
65
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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.

AthensOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 7 points.7
AthensOsaka
Score4855
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km1425
Coast distance6 km7 km
Water distance6 km7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 21 points.21
AthensOsaka
Score6990
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4319,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2525
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 9 points.9
AthensOsaka
Score7364
Museums within 10 km12278
Museums within 2 km of centre7822
Share of museums within 2 km %6428
Unesco sites within 50 km26
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 16 points.16
AthensOsaka
Score8197
Drinking venues within 4 km2,7188,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,3544,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5053
Nightclubs within 4 km13697
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 17 points.17
AthensOsaka
Score4528
Protected land share 50 km %51
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %5084
Park area within 2 km128 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 1 points.1
AthensOsaka
Score7172
Tourist attractions within 2 km6847
Park area within 2 km128 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 27 points.27
AthensOsaka
Score7548
Notable places within 2 km29163
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Athens leads by 4 points.4
AthensOsaka
Score7470
Price level global55.862.4
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Athens leads by 11 points.11
AthensOsaka
Score7463
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm47 mm to 185 mm
Dry months70
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
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensOsaka
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 40 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 38 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 45 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 38 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€174-212
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€97-139
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
11 h 20 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
6 h 25 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
Abu DhabiAUH
4 h 30 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
9 h 40 m
€810-860
3 stops
KIX · 38 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

MeasureAthensOsaka
Official languageGreekJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation74 m20 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensOsaka
City population643,4522,751,862
People per km²16,49912,340
Museums within 10 km8843
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km26
Distinct cuisines in the centre8297
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months5 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. 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). 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. 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.