VacationSelector

Belfast or Osaka?

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

Your match

Belfast
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Osaka
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BelfastOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 7 points.7
BelfastOsaka
Score4855
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km1025
Coast distance1 km7 km
Water distance1 km7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 34 points.34
BelfastOsaka
Score5690
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4329,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3125
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 35 points.35
BelfastOsaka
Score2964
Museums within 10 km1878
Museums within 2 km of centre622
Share of museums within 2 km %3328
Unesco sites within 50 km16
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 49 points.49
BelfastOsaka
Score4897
Drinking venues within 4 km5508,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3484,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6353
Nightclubs within 4 km2997
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 25 points.25
BelfastOsaka
Score5328
Protected land share 50 km %191
Landscape blanket share 50 km %131
Land share of disc %6584
Park area within 2 km68 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 24 points.24
BelfastOsaka
Score4872
Tourist attractions within 2 km1647
Park area within 2 km68 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. Osaka leads by 6 points.6
BelfastOsaka
Score4248
Notable places within 2 km4363
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 16 points.16
BelfastOsaka
Score5470
Price level global84.962.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Osaka leads by 12 points.12
BelfastOsaka
Score5163
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 mm47 mm to 185 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
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
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. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastOsaka
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 38 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 45 m
€327-334
KIX · 38 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
San FranciscoSFO
10 h 20 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
Abu DhabiAUH
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 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

MeasureBelfastOsaka
Official languageEnglishJapanese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Yen (JPY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112 or 999Police 110, fire 119
Elevation3 m20 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastOsaka
City population345,0062,751,862
People per km²3,00012,340
Museums within 10 km843
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km16
Distinct cuisines in the centre4497
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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). 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. 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.