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The church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón, La Romana
La RomanaThe church of San Estanislao at Altos de Chavón
Shitennō-ji temple, Osaka
OsakaShitennō-ji temple

Photos: La Romana by Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Osaka by Sarmat Batagov, Pexels License.

La Romana 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 La Romana for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Osaka for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • 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. La Romana 84, Osaka 34: La Romana leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. La Romana 38, Osaka 91: Osaka leads by 53 points.
Culture & sights. La Romana 24, Osaka 63: Osaka leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. La Romana 30, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Romana 62, Osaka 58: La Romana leads by 4 points.
Day trips. La Romana 52, Osaka 97: Osaka leads by 45 points.
Good for families. La Romana 56, Osaka 88: Osaka leads by 32 points.
Getting around. La Romana 24, Osaka 90: Osaka leads by 66 points.
Shopping & style. La Romana 28, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 52 points.
Affordability. La Romana 50, Osaka 60: Osaka leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Romana 17, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 49 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Romana 44, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Romana and Osaka.

Your match

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

La Romana
42match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Osaka
Best match
73match

Wins on getting around and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

La Romana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
87 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 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

La Romana's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Punta Cana.

La Romana 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. La Romana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (65.4 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa RomanaOsaka
Official languageSpanishJapanese
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation10 m20 m
Main airportCasa De Campo International Airport (LRM)7 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa RomanaOsaka
City population139,2382,751,862
People per km²51212,340
Museums within 10 km044
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.