VacationSelector

Bodrum or Osaka?

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

Your match

Bodrum
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Osaka
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

BodrumOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 22 points.22
BodrumOsaka
Score7755
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km3025
Coast distance0 km7 km
Water distance0 km7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 40 points.40
BodrumOsaka
Score5090
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4449,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2025
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 44 points.44
BodrumOsaka
Score2064
Museums within 10 km578
Museums within 2 km of centre422
Share of museums within 2 km %8028
Unesco sites within 50 km06
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 52 points.52
BodrumOsaka
Score4597
Drinking venues within 4 km4188,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3344,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8053
Nightclubs within 4 km6097
Nature & day trips. Osaka leads by 9 points.9
BodrumOsaka
Score1928
Protected land share 50 km %51
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %3584
Park area within 2 km3 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 50 points.50
BodrumOsaka
Score2272
Tourist attractions within 2 km1547
Park area within 2 km3 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. Osaka leads by 30 points.30
BodrumOsaka
Score1848
Notable places within 2 km1163
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 19 points.19
BodrumOsaka
Score8970
Price level global35.262.4
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 14 points.14
BodrumOsaka
Score7763
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm47 mm to 185 mm
Dry months50
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
Bodrum
14
15
17
20
24
28
31
31
28
24
19
16
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Bodrum
No sunshine record
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. Bodrum: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kos Airport (42.7 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumOsaka
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
3 h 20 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 35 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 5 m
€232-285
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 20 m
€193-226
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 35 m
€229-250
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
MunichMUC
2 h 45 m
€197-226
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
Abu DhabiAUH
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 142 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

MeasureBodrumOsaka
Official languageTurkishJapanese
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation10 m20 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumOsaka
City population175,0002,751,862
People per km²31412,340
Museums within 10 km443
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Distinct cuisines in the centre3097
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). 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.