VacationSelector

Cork or Osaka?

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

Your match

Cork
38
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

CorkOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 27 points.27
CorkOsaka
Score2855
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km125
Coast distance3 km7 km
Water distance3 km7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 40 points.40
CorkOsaka
Score5090
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2249,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3525
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 41 points.41
CorkOsaka
Score2364
Museums within 10 km1078
Museums within 2 km of centre822
Share of museums within 2 km %8028
Unesco sites within 50 km06
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 59 points.59
CorkOsaka
Score3897
Drinking venues within 4 km3618,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2924,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8153
Nightclubs within 4 km997
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 24 points.24
CorkOsaka
Score5228
Protected land share 50 km %1
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %7484
Park area within 2 km48 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 45 points.45
CorkOsaka
Score2772
Tourist attractions within 2 km747
Park area within 2 km48 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. Osaka leads by 26 points.26
CorkOsaka
Score2248
Notable places within 2 km1463
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 13 points.13
CorkOsaka
Score5770
Price level global80.262.4
Daily budget€187
Year-round weather. Osaka leads by 14 points.14
CorkOsaka
Score4963
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 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
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
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. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkOsaka
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
7 h 25 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
12 h 55 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

MeasureCorkOsaka
Official languageEnglish, IrishJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)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 number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation0 m20 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkOsaka
City population222,3332,751,862
People per km²5,96112,340
Museums within 10 km543
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Distinct cuisines in the centre4997
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). 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.