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The Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill, Halifax
HalifaxThe Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill
Shitennō-ji temple, Osaka
OsakaShitennō-ji temple

Photos: Halifax by Danieljmacdonald, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Osaka by Sarmat Batagov, Pexels License.

Halifax or Osaka?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Halifax for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Halifax’s own page.

Choose Osaka for

  • shopping
  • getting around
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Osaka’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Halifax 32, Osaka 34: Osaka leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Halifax 50, Osaka 91: Osaka leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Halifax 42, Osaka 63: Osaka leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Halifax 46, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Halifax 62, Osaka 58: Halifax leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Halifax 63, Osaka 97: Osaka leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Halifax 55, Osaka 88: Osaka leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Halifax 48, Osaka 90: Osaka leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Halifax 35, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 45 points.
Affordability. Halifax 38, Osaka 60: Osaka leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Halifax 46, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Halifax 28, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Halifax and Osaka.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Halifax
45match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Osaka
Best match
73match

Wins on shopping and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Halifax in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
101 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Osaka in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
175 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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HalifaxOsaka

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Halifax: 1991-2020 normals, Shearwater Airport (6 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHalifaxOsaka
Official languageFrench, EnglishJapanese
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation28 m20 m
Main airportHalifax / Stanfield International Airport (YHZ)26 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureHalifaxOsaka
City population440,0722,751,862
People per km²8012,340
Museums within 10 km1544
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.