VacationSelector

Faro or Osaka?

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

Your match

Faro
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

FaroOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 6 points.6
FaroOsaka
Score6155
Swim season months35
Beaches 10 km1325
Coast distance0 km7 km
Water distance0 km7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 46 points.46
FaroOsaka
Score4490
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2559,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2225
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 42 points.42
FaroOsaka
Score2264
Museums within 10 km978
Museums within 2 km of centre822
Share of museums within 2 km %8928
Unesco sites within 50 km06
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 76 points.76
FaroOsaka
Score2197
Drinking venues within 4 km1438,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1234,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8653
Nightclubs within 4 km897
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 29 points.29
FaroOsaka
Score5728
Protected land share 50 km %111
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %4284
Park area within 2 km34 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 36 points.36
FaroOsaka
Score3672
Tourist attractions within 2 km1047
Park area within 2 km34 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. Osaka leads by 26 points.26
FaroOsaka
Score2248
Notable places within 2 km1463
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Faro leads by 4 points.4
FaroOsaka
Score7470
Price level global55.962.4
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 20 points.20
FaroOsaka
Score8363
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
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
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
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. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroOsaka
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 0 m
€138-208
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
3 h 25 m
€203-217
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
MunichMUC
3 h 5 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 40 m
€134-165
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 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

MeasureFaroOsaka
Official languagePortugueseJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation10 m20 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroOsaka
City population64,5602,751,862
People per km²31912,340
Museums within 10 km243
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Distinct cuisines in the centre3497
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.