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Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks
Shitennō-ji temple, Osaka
OsakaShitennō-ji temple

Photos: Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Osaka by Sarmat Batagov, Pexels License.

Nashville or Osaka?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Nashville for

  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’s own page.

Choose Osaka for

  • getting around
  • wellness
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Osaka’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Nashville 14, Osaka 34: Osaka leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Nashville 62, Osaka 91: Osaka leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Nashville 50, Osaka 63: Osaka leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Nashville 70, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nashville 46, Osaka 58: Osaka leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Nashville 52, Osaka 97: Osaka leads by 45 points.
Good for families. Nashville 55, Osaka 88: Osaka leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Nashville 30, Osaka 90: Osaka leads by 60 points.
Shopping & style. Nashville 42, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Nashville 30, Osaka 60: Osaka leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nashville 82, Osaka 66: Nashville leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nashville 20, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 46 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nashville and Osaka.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Nashville
46match

Wins on live music and the arts with your weighting.

Osaka
Best match
73match

Wins on getting around and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Osaka in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
175 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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NashvilleOsaka

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNashvilleOsaka
Official language-Japanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation182 m20 m
Main airportNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNashvilleOsaka
City population689,4472,751,862
People per km²50612,340
Museums within 10 km1244
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.