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The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken
Shitennō-ji temple, Osaka
OsakaShitennō-ji temple

Photos: Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Osaka by Sarmat Batagov, Pexels License.

Interlaken 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 Interlaken for

  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Osaka for

  • food and drink
  • nightlife
  • shopping

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. Interlaken 30, Osaka 34: Osaka leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Interlaken 25, Osaka 91: Osaka leads by 66 points.
Culture & sights. Interlaken 8, Osaka 63: Osaka leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Interlaken 15, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 65 points.
Nature & outdoors. Interlaken 97, Osaka 58: Interlaken leads by 39 points.
Day trips. Interlaken 78, Osaka 97: Osaka leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Interlaken 72, Osaka 88: Osaka leads by 16 points.
Getting around. Interlaken 80, Osaka 90: Osaka leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Interlaken 22, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 58 points.
Affordability. Interlaken 8, Osaka 60: Osaka leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Interlaken 15, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Interlaken 40, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Interlaken and Osaka.

Your match

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

Interlaken
41match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Osaka
Best match
73match

Wins on food and drink and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Interlaken in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
126 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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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Where the figures come from

Interlaken has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInterlakenOsaka
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshJapanese
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCJ230 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
Elevation571 m20 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenOsaka
City population6,1232,751,862
People per km²1,42412,340
Museums within 10 km344
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km26
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.