VacationSelector

Lyon or Osaka?

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

Your match

Lyon
52
match

Wins on sights concentration and nature & day trips 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.

LyonOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 55 points.55
LyonOsaka
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km2625
Coast distance253 km7 km
Water distance7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 11 points.11
LyonOsaka
Score7990
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,6919,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4025
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 9 points.9
LyonOsaka
Score5564
Museums within 10 km5378
Museums within 2 km of centre2522
Share of museums within 2 km %4728
Unesco sites within 50 km26
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 39 points.39
LyonOsaka
Score5897
Drinking venues within 4 km8668,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre6114,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7153
Nightclubs within 4 km4797
Nature & day trips. Lyon leads by 5 points.5
LyonOsaka
Score3328
Protected land share 50 km %61
Landscape blanket share 50 km %61
Land share of disc %10084
Park area within 2 km120 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 13 points.13
LyonOsaka
Score5972
Tourist attractions within 2 km2547
Park area within 2 km120 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. Lyon leads by 6 points.6
LyonOsaka
Score5448
Notable places within 2 km8663
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 8 points.8
LyonOsaka
Score6270
Price level global73.762.4
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Lyon leads by 1 points.1
LyonOsaka
Score6463
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 28 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 101 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
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Lyon
No coastline within reach
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Lyon
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
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
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. Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLyonOsaka
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 35 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 38 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 20 m
€195-211
2 stops
LYS · 20 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 30 m
€79-99
LYS · 20 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 111 km
2 h 45 m
€327-334
KIX · 38 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
11 h 30 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

MeasureLyonOsaka
Official languageFrenchJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCE230 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
Elevation160 m20 m
Main airportLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLyonOsaka
City population519,1272,751,862
People per km²10,83812,340
Museums within 10 km4243
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km26
Distinct cuisines in the centre14897
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.