VacationSelector

Melbourne or Osaka?

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

Your match

Melbourne
60
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Osaka
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

MelbourneOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Melbourne and Osaka are level on 55.
MelbourneOsaka
Score5555
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km1925
Coast distance4 km7 km
Water distance4 km7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 15 points.15
MelbourneOsaka
Score7590
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,8889,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2925
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 15 points.15
MelbourneOsaka
Score4964
Museums within 10 km4278
Museums within 2 km of centre2422
Share of museums within 2 km %5728
Unesco sites within 50 km16
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 23 points.23
MelbourneOsaka
Score7497
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9218,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,2004,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6253
Nightclubs within 4 km12497
Nature & day trips. Melbourne leads by 15 points.15
MelbourneOsaka
Score4328
Protected land share 50 km %61
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %8184
Park area within 2 km166 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 12 points.12
MelbourneOsaka
Score6072
Tourist attractions within 2 km2647
Park area within 2 km166 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 9 points.9
MelbourneOsaka
Score5748
Notable places within 2 km10363
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 20 points.20
MelbourneOsaka
Score5070
Price level global90.262.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 13 points.13
MelbourneOsaka
Score7663
Monthly daytime high13.6 °C to 26.8 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 69 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
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9
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. Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMelbourneOsaka
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 15 m
€809-850
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 11 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 5 m
€542-1650
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 38 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
7 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
6 h 25 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
9 h 15 m
€407-480
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 38 km
Hong KongHKG
9 h 25 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
3 h 35 m
€254-314
KIX · 38 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
8 h 5 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
ManilaMNL
8 h 5 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
15 h 40 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
DohaDOH
14 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
10 h 55 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureMelbourneOsaka
Official languageEnglishJapanese
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number000Police 110, fire 119
Elevation31 m20 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneOsaka
City population5,350,7052,751,862
People per km²53512,340
Museums within 10 km4243
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km16
Distinct cuisines in the centre8697
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.