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Ljubljana or Osaka?

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

Your match

Ljubljana
47
match

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

Osaka
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

LjubljanaOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 55 points.55
LjubljanaOsaka
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km1025
Coast distance72 km7 km
Water distance7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 35 points.35
LjubljanaOsaka
Score5590
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2929,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4025
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 9 points.9
LjubljanaOsaka
Score5564
Museums within 10 km2678
Museums within 2 km of centre2322
Share of museums within 2 km %8828
Unesco sites within 50 km36
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 52 points.52
LjubljanaOsaka
Score4597
Drinking venues within 4 km4588,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2844,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6253
Nightclubs within 4 km2497
Nature & day trips. Ljubljana leads by 12 points.12
LjubljanaOsaka
Score4028
Protected land share 50 km %131
Landscape blanket share 50 km %51
Land share of disc %10084
Park area within 2 km75 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 34 points.34
LjubljanaOsaka
Score3872
Tourist attractions within 2 km1247
Park area within 2 km75 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. Ljubljana leads by 10 points.10
LjubljanaOsaka
Score5848
Notable places within 2 km10963
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ljubljana leads by 2 points.2
LjubljanaOsaka
Score7270
Price level global59.662.4
Daily budget€131
Year-round weather. Osaka leads by 7 points.7
LjubljanaOsaka
Score5663
Monthly daytime high4.1 °C to 27.9 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall67 mm to 159 mm47 mm to 185 mm
Dry months00
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
Ljubljana
4
7
12
17
22
26
28
28
22
16
10
4
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Ljubljana
No coastline within reach
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Ljubljana
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
8
6
4
2
2
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. Ljubljana: 1991-2020 normals, Ljubljana / Bezigrad (1.9 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLjubljanaOsaka
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 35 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 38 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 20 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
DohaDOH
5 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
MunichMUC
1 h 0 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 20 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 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

MeasureLjubljanaOsaka
Official languageSloveneJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation309 m20 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLjubljanaOsaka
City population284,2932,751,862
People per km²1,73612,340
Museums within 10 km1443
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km36
Distinct cuisines in the centre6397
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.