VacationSelector

Lisbon or Osaka?

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

Your match

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

Osaka
65
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

LisbonOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 2 points.2
LisbonOsaka
Score5755
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km2425
Coast distance2 km7 km
Water distance2 km7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 10 points.10
LisbonOsaka
Score8090
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,4969,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3125
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 6 points.6
LisbonOsaka
Score7064
Museums within 10 km12478
Museums within 2 km of centre5422
Share of museums within 2 km %4428
Unesco sites within 50 km36
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 32 points.32
LisbonOsaka
Score6597
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2258,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre9564,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7853
Nightclubs within 4 km6597
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 28 points.28
LisbonOsaka
Score5628
Protected land share 50 km %111
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %5484
Park area within 2 km77 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 3 points.3
LisbonOsaka
Score6972
Tourist attractions within 2 km8247
Park area within 2 km77 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 18 points.18
LisbonOsaka
Score6648
Notable places within 2 km16963
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 4 points.4
LisbonOsaka
Score7470
Price level global55.962.4
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 15 points.15
LisbonOsaka
Score7863
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 mm47 mm to 185 mm
Dry months40
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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
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
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
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. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonOsaka
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 38 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€164-250
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 50 m
€120-145
LIS · 7 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
MunichMUC
3 h 0 m
€222-263
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
2 h 50 m
€188-252
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 55 m
€421-500
2 stops
LIS · 7 km
9 h 35 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

MeasureLisbonOsaka
Official languagePortugueseJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation100 m20 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonOsaka
City population545,7962,751,862
People per km²5,45312,340
Museums within 10 km7843
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km36
Distinct cuisines in the centre10697
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. 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.