VacationSelector

Madrid 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

Madrid
66
match

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

Osaka
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.

MadridOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 55 points.55
MadridOsaka
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km425
Coast distance305 km7 km
Water distance—7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 7 points.7
MadridOsaka
Score8390
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,5089,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2825
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 11 points.11
MadridOsaka
Score7564
Museums within 10 km9778
Museums within 2 km of centre5922
Share of museums within 2 km %6128
Unesco sites within 50 km46
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 16 points.16
MadridOsaka
Score8197
Drinking venues within 4 km2,4148,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,4984,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6253
Nightclubs within 4 km34197
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 35 points.35
MadridOsaka
Score6328
Protected land share 50 km %191
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %10084
Park area within 2 km187 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 5 points.5
MadridOsaka
Score7772
Tourist attractions within 2 km6147
Park area within 2 km187 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km37
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 27 points.27
MadridOsaka
Score7548
Notable places within 2 km28863
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Madrid leads by 1 points.1
MadridOsaka
Score7170
Price level global60.862.4
Daily budget€122—
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 9 points.9
MadridOsaka
Score7263
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 32.7 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 64 mm47 mm to 185 mm
Dry months70
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Madrid
No coastline within reach
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
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. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMadridOsaka
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 25 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 38 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 20 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 11 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
12 h 45 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 38 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
12 h 40 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 38 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 25 m
€496-659
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€121-231
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
DohaDOH
6 h 55 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
10 h 0 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

MeasureMadridOsaka
Official languageSpanishJapanese
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
Elevation663 m20 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridOsaka
City population3,506,7302,751,862
People per km²5,80112,340
Museums within 10 km8843
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km46
Distinct cuisines in the centre10697
Swim season, months above 21 °C–5 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.