VacationSelector

London or Osaka?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

London
64
match

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

Osaka
65
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

LondonOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 55 points.55
LondonOsaka
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km4725
Coast distance43 km7 km
Water distance7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 2 points.2
LondonOsaka
Score8890
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,3179,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4025
Museums & heritage. London leads by 8 points.8
LondonOsaka
Score7264
Museums within 10 km14878
Museums within 2 km of centre4922
Share of museums within 2 km %3328
Unesco sites within 50 km46
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 2 points.2
LondonOsaka
Score9597
Drinking venues within 4 km5,3278,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,4434,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4653
Nightclubs within 4 km31297
Nature & day trips. London leads by 12 points.12
LondonOsaka
Score4028
Protected land share 50 km %161
Landscape blanket share 50 km %141
Land share of disc %9784
Park area within 2 km84 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 3 points.3
LondonOsaka
Score7572
Tourist attractions within 2 km8547
Park area within 2 km84 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km37
Sights concentration. London leads by 41 points.41
LondonOsaka
Score8948
Notable places within 2 km64963
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 16 points.16
LondonOsaka
Score5470
Price level global84.962.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. London and Osaka are level on 63.
LondonOsaka
Score6363
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm47 mm to 185 mm
Dry months10
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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
London
No coastline within reach
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
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. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLondonOsaka
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 5 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 38 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 55 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 11 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 30 m
€665-831
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 38 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 55 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 38 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
Hong KongHKG
12 h 0 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
3 h 35 m
€254-314
KIX · 38 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
13 h 30 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
6 h 25 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 15 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 45 m
€327-334
KIX · 38 km
Abu DhabiAUH
7 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 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 2026-08 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

MeasureLondonOsaka
Official languageEnglishJapanese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Yen (JPY)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112 or 999Police 110, fire 119
Elevation4 m20 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonOsaka
City population8,799,7282,751,862
People per km²5,59812,340
Museums within 10 km21543
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km46
Distinct cuisines in the centre11697
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.