VacationSelector

New York 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

New York
66
match

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

Osaka
65
match

Wins on value for money 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.

New YorkOsaka
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 9 points.9
New YorkOsaka
Score6455
Swim season months35
Beaches 10 km1725
Coast distance1 km7 km
Water distance1 km7 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 5 points.5
New YorkOsaka
Score9590
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,0329,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3825
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 4 points.4
New YorkOsaka
Score6064
Museums within 10 km11978
Museums within 2 km of centre3122
Share of museums within 2 km %2628
Unesco sites within 50 km26
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 8 points.8
New YorkOsaka
Score8997
Drinking venues within 4 km4,1598,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,0154,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4853
Nightclubs within 4 km19297
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 11 points.11
New YorkOsaka
Score3928
Protected land share 50 km %41
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %6984
Park area within 2 km134 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. New York and Osaka are level on 72.
New YorkOsaka
Score7272
Tourist attractions within 2 km3747
Park area within 2 km134 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km77
Sights concentration. New York leads by 26 points.26
New YorkOsaka
Score7448
Notable places within 2 km26863
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 27 points.27
New YorkOsaka
Score4370
Price level global10062.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Osaka leads by 5 points.5
New YorkOsaka
Score5863
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
New York
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
New York
No sunshine record
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. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkOsaka
SeoulICN, GMP
13 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 38 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 21 km
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 11 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
5 h 20 m
€314-354
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 5 m
€236-237
LGA · 13 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
HonoluluHNL
10 h 5 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 20 m
€206-234
LGA · 13 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
Abu DhabiAUH
13 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 21 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

MeasureNew YorkOsaka
Official languageJapanese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation25 m20 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkOsaka
City population8,804,1902,751,862
People per km²7,25612,340
Museums within 10 km15743
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km26
Distinct cuisines in the centre13297
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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. 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.