VacationSelector

Las Vegas or Osaka?

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

Your match

Las Vegas
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Osaka
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

Las VegasOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 55 points.55
Las VegasOsaka
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km025
Coast distance372 km7 km
Water distance7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 28 points.28
Las VegasOsaka
Score6290
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9159,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2425
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 45 points.45
Las VegasOsaka
Score1964
Museums within 10 km2478
Museums within 2 km of centre422
Share of museums within 2 km %1728
Unesco sites within 50 km06
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 39 points.39
Las VegasOsaka
Score5897
Drinking venues within 4 km7938,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4854,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6153
Nightclubs within 4 km9097
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 35 points.35
Las VegasOsaka
Score6328
Protected land share 50 km %501
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %10084
Park area within 2 km7 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 38 points.38
Las VegasOsaka
Score3472
Tourist attractions within 2 km1947
Park area within 2 km7 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km47
Sights concentration. Las Vegas leads by 3 points.3
Las VegasOsaka
Score5148
Notable places within 2 km7563
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 27 points.27
Las VegasOsaka
Score4370
Price level global10062.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Las Vegas leads by 9 points.9
Las VegasOsaka
Score7263
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 40.3 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 21 mm47 mm to 185 mm
Dry months120
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
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Las Vegas
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Las Vegas
No sunshine record
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. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLas VegasOsaka
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
1 h 5 m
€76-164
LAS · 4 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 38 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 25 m
€91-219
LAS · 4 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 30 m
€171-225
LAS · 4 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
HonoluluHNL
5 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
2 h 20 m
€132-243
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 20 m
€261-438
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
13 h 10 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

MeasureLas VegasOsaka
Official languageJapanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation610 m20 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasOsaka
City population641,9032,751,862
People per km²1,84312,340
Museums within 10 km2143
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Distinct cuisines in the centre4997
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. 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. 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.