VacationSelector

Monaco or Osaka?

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

Your match

Monaco
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Osaka
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

MonacoOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 18 points.18
MonacoOsaka
Score7355
Swim season months45
Beaches 10 km5025
Coast distance0 km7 km
Water distance0 km7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 51 points.51
MonacoOsaka
Score3990
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2699,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1625
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 26 points.26
MonacoOsaka
Score3864
Museums within 10 km2378
Museums within 2 km of centre822
Share of museums within 2 km %3528
Unesco sites within 50 km26
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 89 points.89
MonacoOsaka
Score897
Drinking venues within 4 km698,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre634,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9153
Nightclubs within 4 km797
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 25 points.25
MonacoOsaka
Score5328
Protected land share 50 km %241
Landscape blanket share 50 km %171
Land share of disc %5484
Park area within 2 km15 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 37 points.37
MonacoOsaka
Score3572
Tourist attractions within 2 km1447
Park area within 2 km15 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km37
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 16 points.16
MonacoOsaka
Score6448
Notable places within 2 km15463
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 11 points.11
MonacoOsaka
Score7463
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm47 mm to 185 mm
Dry months30
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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
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
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. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMonacoOsaka
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 18 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 15 m
€234-288
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
2 h 0 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
Abu DhabiAUH
6 h 20 m
no fares
NCE · 18 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

MeasureMonacoOsaka
Official languageFrenchJapanese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCEF230 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
Elevation68 m20 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoOsaka
City population38,8572,751,862
People per km²18,50312,340
Museums within 10 km1443
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km26
Distinct cuisines in the centre2997
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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). 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). Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. 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.