VacationSelector

Budapest or Osaka?

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

Your match

Budapest
60
match

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

Osaka
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

BudapestOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 55 points.55
BudapestOsaka
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km625
Coast distance10,000 km7 km
Water distance7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 13 points.13
BudapestOsaka
Score7790
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,6999,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3525
Museums & heritage. Budapest and Osaka are level on 64.
BudapestOsaka
Score6464
Museums within 10 km14478
Museums within 2 km of centre6422
Share of museums within 2 km %4428
Unesco sites within 50 km16
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 25 points.25
BudapestOsaka
Score7297
Drinking venues within 4 km1,7658,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,1684,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6653
Nightclubs within 4 km9797
Nature & day trips. Budapest leads by 12 points.12
BudapestOsaka
Score4028
Protected land share 50 km %81
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %10084
Park area within 2 km111 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 1 points.1
BudapestOsaka
Score7172
Tourist attractions within 2 km7547
Park area within 2 km111 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 21 points.21
BudapestOsaka
Score6948
Notable places within 2 km20663
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Budapest leads by 10 points.10
BudapestOsaka
Score8070
Price level global4862.4
Daily budget€104
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 1 points.1
BudapestOsaka
Score6463
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Budapest
No coastline within reach
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestOsaka
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€63-91
BUD · 18 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 15 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 38 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 30 m
€698-839
3 stops
BUD · 18 km
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 38 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 10 m
€97-114
BUD · 18 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
€123-153
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 40 m
€52-62
BUD · 18 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 25 m
€276-394
2 stops
BUD · 18 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 5 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
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 2026-09 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

MeasureBudapestOsaka
Official languageHungarianJapanese
CurrencyForint (HUF)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 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
Elevation117 m20 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestOsaka
City population1,685,2092,751,862
People per km²3,20912,340
Museums within 10 km8143
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km16
Distinct cuisines in the centre8697
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.