VacationSelector

Catania or Osaka?

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

Your match

Catania
52
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Osaka
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

CataniaOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 3 points.3
CataniaOsaka
Score5855
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km525
Coast distance1 km7 km
Water distance1 km7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 41 points.41
CataniaOsaka
Score4990
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6379,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1425
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 5 points.5
CataniaOsaka
Score5964
Museums within 10 km3478
Museums within 2 km of centre2722
Share of museums within 2 km %7928
Unesco sites within 50 km36
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 50 points.50
CataniaOsaka
Score4797
Drinking venues within 4 km5378,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4034,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7553
Nightclubs within 4 km1897
Nature & day trips. Catania leads by 3 points.3
CataniaOsaka
Score3128
Protected land share 50 km %101
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %6184
Park area within 2 km11 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 36 points.36
CataniaOsaka
Score3672
Tourist attractions within 2 km2547
Park area within 2 km11 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. Osaka leads by 9 points.9
CataniaOsaka
Score3948
Notable places within 2 km3763
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 2 points.2
CataniaOsaka
Score6870
Price level global64.962.4
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 14 points.14
CataniaOsaka
Score7763
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 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
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
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. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCataniaOsaka
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 25 m
€101-146
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
2 h 40 m
€157-220
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€166-455
CTA · 4 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
MunichMUC
2 h 5 m
€195-231
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€201-205
CTA · 4 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
2 h 50 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 15 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
13 h 45 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 2026-09 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

MeasureCataniaOsaka
Official languageItalianJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCFL230 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
Elevation7 m20 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaOsaka
City population311,5842,751,862
People per km²1,70412,340
Museums within 10 km2543
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km36
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). 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. 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.