VacationSelector

Cape Town or Osaka?

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

Your match

Cape Town
57
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

Cape TownOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Cape Town leads by 5 points.5
Cape TownOsaka
Score6055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km2925
Coast distance1 km7 km
Water distance1 km7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 23 points.23
Cape TownOsaka
Score6790
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6509,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4225
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 10 points.10
Cape TownOsaka
Score5464
Museums within 10 km2578
Museums within 2 km of centre2022
Share of museums within 2 km %8028
Unesco sites within 50 km36
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 50 points.50
Cape TownOsaka
Score4797
Drinking venues within 4 km4838,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3894,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8153
Nightclubs within 4 km4797
Nature & day trips. Cape Town leads by 8 points.8
Cape TownOsaka
Score3628
Protected land share 50 km %61
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %4284
Park area within 2 km27 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 36 points.36
Cape TownOsaka
Score3672
Tourist attractions within 2 km1947
Park area within 2 km27 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. Osaka leads by 3 points.3
Cape TownOsaka
Score4548
Notable places within 2 km5163
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cape Town leads by 15 points.15
Cape TownOsaka
Score8570
Price level global40.562.4
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Cape Town leads by 23 points.23
Cape TownOsaka
Score8663
Monthly daytime high18 °C to 27.5 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall10 mm to 97 mm47 mm to 185 mm
Dry months60
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
Cape Town
27
28
26
24
21
18
18
18
20
22
24
26
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Cape Town
18
18
17
16
15
15
15
15
15
15
16
17
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Cape Town
10
11
13
42
65
97
89
76
47
32
27
13
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Cape Town
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cape Town
12
10
9
8
6
6
6
7
8
9
10
11
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. Cape Town: 1991-2020 normals, Cape Town Airport (17.5 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCape TownOsaka
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 5 m
€634-815
CPT · 18 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
12 h 0 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
6 h 25 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 45 m
€632-724
1 stop
CPT · 18 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 40 m
€742-801
2 stops
CPT · 18 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
15 h 25 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
MunichMUC
11 h 30 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 5 m
no fares
CPT · 18 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 35 m
€717-799
1 stop
CPT · 18 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
9 h 40 m
€611-615
1 stop
CPT · 18 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
DohaDOH
9 h 25 m
€850-932
2 stops
CPT · 18 km
10 h 0 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

MeasureCape TownOsaka
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign LanguageJapanese
CurrencyRand (ZAR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+2UTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation5 m20 m
Main airportCape Town International Airport (CPT)18 km from centre44 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCape TownOsaka
City population3,776,3132,751,862
People per km²1,53812,340
Museums within 10 km2243
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km36
Distinct cuisines in the centre6597
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.