VacationSelector

Inverness or Osaka?

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

Your match

Inverness
25
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

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.

InvernessOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 27 points.27
InvernessOsaka
Score2855
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km125
Coast distance1 km7 km
Water distance1 km7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 69 points.69
InvernessOsaka
Score2190
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1149,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1125
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 44 points.44
InvernessOsaka
Score2064
Museums within 10 km678
Museums within 2 km of centre522
Share of museums within 2 km %8328
Unesco sites within 50 km06
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 82 points.82
InvernessOsaka
Score1597
Drinking venues within 4 km1138,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre984,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8753
Nightclubs within 4 km497
Nature & day trips. Osaka leads by 19 points.19
InvernessOsaka
Score928
Protected land share 50 km %121
Landscape blanket share 50 km %111
Land share of disc %8884
Park area within 2 km3 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 72 points.72
InvernessOsaka
Score072
Tourist attractions within 2 km347
Park area within 2 km3 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. Osaka leads by 24 points.24
InvernessOsaka
Score2448
Notable places within 2 km1663
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 16 points.16
InvernessOsaka
Score5470
Price level global84.962.4
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Osaka leads by 11 points.11
InvernessOsaka
Score5263
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 72 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
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
2
1
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. Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInvernessOsaka
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
11 h 30 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

MeasureInvernessOsaka
Official languageEnglishJapanese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)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 number112 or 999Police 110, fire 119
Elevation7 m20 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessOsaka
City population47,3802,751,862
People per km²2,28912,340
Museums within 10 km343
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Distinct cuisines in the centre1597
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). 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. 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.