VacationSelector

Izmir or Osaka?

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

Your match

Izmir
53
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Osaka
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

IzmirOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Izmir and Osaka are level on 55.
IzmirOsaka
Score5555
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km425
Coast distance1 km7 km
Water distance1 km7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 41 points.41
IzmirOsaka
Score4990
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7709,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1225
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 21 points.21
IzmirOsaka
Score4364
Museums within 10 km4778
Museums within 2 km of centre2722
Share of museums within 2 km %5728
Unesco sites within 50 km06
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 35 points.35
IzmirOsaka
Score6297
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0288,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6954,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6853
Nightclubs within 4 km7097
Nature & day trips. Izmir leads by 1 points.1
IzmirOsaka
Score2928
Protected land share 50 km %41
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %8484
Park area within 2 km62 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 37 points.37
IzmirOsaka
Score3572
Tourist attractions within 2 km647
Park area within 2 km62 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. Osaka leads by 8 points.8
IzmirOsaka
Score4048
Notable places within 2 km3963
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 19 points.19
IzmirOsaka
Score8970
Price level global35.262.4
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 9 points.9
IzmirOsaka
Score7263
Monthly daytime high13 °C to 33.9 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 127 mm47 mm to 185 mm
Dry months50
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
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4
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. Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromIzmirOsaka
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
3 h 10 m
€184-207
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
MunichMUC
2 h 40 m
€185-288
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
TehranIKA, THR
3 h 10 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
Abu DhabiAUH
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
9 h 40 m
€810-860
3 stops
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

MeasureIzmirOsaka
Official languageTurkishJapanese
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation2 m20 m
Main airportAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureIzmirOsaka
City population4,493,2422,751,862
People per km²4,76012,340
Museums within 10 km2943
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Distinct cuisines in the centre2097
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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.