VacationSelector

Nuremberg or Osaka?

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

Your match

Nuremberg
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Osaka
✓ Best match
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.

NurembergOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 55 points.55
NurembergOsaka
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km625
Coast distance430 km7 km
Water distance7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 26 points.26
NurembergOsaka
Score6490
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7009,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3325
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 12 points.12
NurembergOsaka
Score5264
Museums within 10 km5378
Museums within 2 km of centre2922
Share of museums within 2 km %5528
Unesco sites within 50 km16
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 49 points.49
NurembergOsaka
Score4897
Drinking venues within 4 km5238,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4274,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8253
Nightclubs within 4 km3697
Nature & day trips. Nuremberg leads by 21 points.21
NurembergOsaka
Score4928
Protected land share 50 km %421
Landscape blanket share 50 km %411
Land share of disc %10084
Park area within 2 km31 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 13 points.13
NurembergOsaka
Score5972
Tourist attractions within 2 km5947
Park area within 2 km31 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. Osaka leads by 4 points.4
NurembergOsaka
Score4448
Notable places within 2 km5063
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 10 points.10
NurembergOsaka
Score6070
Price level global75.962.4
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Osaka leads by 3 points.3
NurembergOsaka
Score6063
Monthly daytime high3.5 °C to 25.2 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 77 mm47 mm to 185 mm
Dry months40
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
Nuremberg
4
5
10
15
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Nuremberg
No coastline within reach
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Nuremberg
40
33
39
33
61
64
77
60
49
50
47
49
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Nuremberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Nuremberg
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Nuremberg: 1991-2020 normals, Nuernberg (5.5 km from centre). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNurembergOsaka
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 38 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 38 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 35 m
€139-243
NUE · 5 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
55 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 38 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
Abu DhabiAUH
6 h 5 m
no fares
MUC · 133 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

MeasureNurembergOsaka
Official languageGermanJapanese
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
Elevation209 m20 m
Main airportNuremberg Airport (NUE)5 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNurembergOsaka
City population529,5082,751,862
People per km²2,83912,340
Museums within 10 km5043
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km16
Distinct cuisines in the centre7197
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.