VacationSelector

Limassol or Osaka?

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

Your match

Limassol
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

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.

LimassolOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 24 points.24
LimassolOsaka
Score7955
Swim season months65
Beaches 10 km2725
Coast distance1 km7 km
Water distance1 km7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 47 points.47
LimassolOsaka
Score4390
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2989,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1925
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 20 points.20
LimassolOsaka
Score4464
Museums within 10 km1778
Museums within 2 km of centre1022
Share of museums within 2 km %5928
Unesco sites within 50 km36
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 58 points.58
LimassolOsaka
Score3997
Drinking venues within 4 km3408,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2564,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7553
Nightclubs within 4 km2097
Nature & day trips. Osaka leads by 6 points.6
LimassolOsaka
Score2228
Protected land share 50 km %21
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %4984
Park area within 2 km32 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 56 points.56
LimassolOsaka
Score1672
Tourist attractions within 2 km347
Park area within 2 km32 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. Osaka leads by 34 points.34
LimassolOsaka
Score1448
Notable places within 2 km963
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol and Osaka are level on 70.
LimassolOsaka
Score7070
Price level global61.462.4
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 22 points.22
LimassolOsaka
Score8563
Monthly daytime high16.5 °C to 31.2 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm47 mm to 185 mm
Dry months80
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
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6
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. Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimassolOsaka
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
AmsterdamAMS
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
3 h 55 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
4 h 0 m
no fares
LCA · 58 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
Abu DhabiAUH
3 h 25 m
no fares
LCA · 58 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureLimassolOsaka
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation10 m20 m
Main airportLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimassolOsaka
City population107,9702,751,862
People per km²2,40512,340
Museums within 10 km243
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km36
Distinct cuisines in the centre2897
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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. 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.