VacationSelector

Ghent or Osaka?

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

Your match

Ghent
50
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Osaka
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming 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.

GhentOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 29 points.29
GhentOsaka
Score2655
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km825
Coast distance32 km7 km
Water distance32 km7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 20 points.20
GhentOsaka
Score7090
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7649,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4925
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 6 points.6
GhentOsaka
Score5864
Museums within 10 km2478
Museums within 2 km of centre2022
Share of museums within 2 km %8328
Unesco sites within 50 km56
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 48 points.48
GhentOsaka
Score4997
Drinking venues within 4 km5708,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4464,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7853
Nightclubs within 4 km2697
Nature & day trips. Ghent leads by 6 points.6
GhentOsaka
Score3428
Protected land share 50 km %71
Landscape blanket share 50 km %41
Land share of disc %8784
Park area within 2 km84 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 22 points.22
GhentOsaka
Score5072
Tourist attractions within 2 km1947
Park area within 2 km84 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. Osaka leads by 2 points.2
GhentOsaka
Score4648
Notable places within 2 km5563
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 10 points.10
GhentOsaka
Score6070
Price level global76.262.4
Daily budget€180—
Year-round weather. Osaka leads by 7 points.7
GhentOsaka
Score5663
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm47 mm to 185 mm
Dry months10
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
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
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
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. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentOsaka
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 11 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 15 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 38 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 56 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 56 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 56 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 38 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
2 h 45 m
€327-334
KIX · 38 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
9 h 35 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 2026-08 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

MeasureGhentOsaka
Official languageFrench, German, DutchJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE230 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
Elevation12 m20 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentOsaka
City population272,6572,751,862
People per km²1,72812,340
Museums within 10 km3043
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km56
Distinct cuisines in the centre8397
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.