VacationSelector

Avignon or Osaka?

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

Your match

Avignon
41
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Osaka
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming 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.

AvignonOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 55 points.55
AvignonOsaka
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km125
Coast distance55 km7 km
Water distance—7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 46 points.46
AvignonOsaka
Score4490
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3369,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1825
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 9 points.9
AvignonOsaka
Score5564
Museums within 10 km1778
Museums within 2 km of centre1622
Share of museums within 2 km %9428
Unesco sites within 50 km66
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 81 points.81
AvignonOsaka
Score1697
Drinking venues within 4 km1158,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre974,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8453
Nightclubs within 4 km497
Nature & day trips. Avignon leads by 16 points.16
AvignonOsaka
Score4428
Protected land share 50 km %361
Landscape blanket share 50 km %311
Land share of disc %10084
Park area within 2 km23 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 30 points.30
AvignonOsaka
Score4272
Tourist attractions within 2 km1547
Park area within 2 km23 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km47
Sights concentration. Osaka leads by 8 points.8
AvignonOsaka
Score4048
Notable places within 2 km4063
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 8 points.8
AvignonOsaka
Score6270
Price level global73.762.4
Daily budget€160—
Year-round weather. Avignon leads by 7 points.7
AvignonOsaka
Score7063
Monthly daytime high11.2 °C to 31.2 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 111 mm47 mm to 185 mm
Dry months20
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
Avignon
11
13
17
19
24
28
31
31
26
21
15
12
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Avignon
No coastline within reach
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Avignon
65
40
44
64
58
44
34
47
111
90
97
57
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Avignon
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Avignon
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
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. Avignon: 1991-2020 normals, Nimes / Courbessac (34 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAvignonOsaka
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 65 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 38 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 38 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 65 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 65 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
FNI · 38 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
1 h 45 m
no fares
BZR · 136 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 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

MeasureAvignonOsaka
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
Elevation10 m20 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonOsaka
City population92,1882,751,862
People per km²1,42012,340
Museums within 10 km1143
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km66
Distinct cuisines in the centre3697
Swim season, months above 21 °C–5 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.