VacationSelector

Maastricht or Osaka?

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

Your match

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Osaka
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming 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.

MaastrichtOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 55 points.55
MaastrichtOsaka
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km625
Coast distance118 km7 km
Water distance7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 42 points.42
MaastrichtOsaka
Score4890
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3389,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2225
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 11 points.11
MaastrichtOsaka
Score5364
Museums within 10 km2378
Museums within 2 km of centre1322
Share of museums within 2 km %5728
Unesco sites within 50 km56
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 67 points.67
MaastrichtOsaka
Score3097
Drinking venues within 4 km2238,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1824,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8253
Nightclubs within 4 km1397
Nature & day trips. Maastricht leads by 9 points.9
MaastrichtOsaka
Score3728
Protected land share 50 km %191
Landscape blanket share 50 km %111
Land share of disc %10084
Park area within 2 km33 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 26 points.26
MaastrichtOsaka
Score4672
Tourist attractions within 2 km1547
Park area within 2 km33 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km57
Sights concentration. Osaka leads by 12 points.12
MaastrichtOsaka
Score3648
Notable places within 2 km3263
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 12 points.12
MaastrichtOsaka
Score5870
Price level global79.262.4
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Osaka leads by 4 points.4
MaastrichtOsaka
Score5963
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Maastricht
No coastline within reach
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
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. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMaastrichtOsaka
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 11 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
2 h 45 m
€327-334
KIX · 38 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 15 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 38 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 38 km
Hong KongHKG
11 h 40 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
3 h 35 m
€254-314
KIX · 38 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
13 h 5 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
6 h 25 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
Abu DhabiAUH
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 85 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

MeasureMaastrichtOsaka
Official languageDutchJapanese
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 number112 or 911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation49 m20 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtOsaka
City population120,2272,751,862
People per km²2,00012,340
Museums within 10 km2143
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km56
Distinct cuisines in the centre3397
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.