VacationSelector

Osaka or Oslo?

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

Your match

Osaka
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Oslo
56
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration 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.

OsakaOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 5 points.5
OsakaOslo
Score5560
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km25163
Coast distance7 km1 km
Water distance7 km1 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 23 points.23
OsakaOslo
Score9067
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9,134853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2534
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 16 points.16
OsakaOslo
Score6448
Museums within 10 km7870
Museums within 2 km of centre2237
Share of museums within 2 km %2853
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 44 points.44
OsakaOslo
Score9753
Drinking venues within 4 km8,473695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4,492562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5381
Nightclubs within 4 km9741
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 33 points.33
OsakaOslo
Score2861
Protected land share 50 km %122
Landscape blanket share 50 km %11
Land share of disc %8494
Park area within 2 km88 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 24 points.24
OsakaOslo
Score7248
Tourist attractions within 2 km4713
Park area within 2 km88 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km72
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 21 points.21
OsakaOslo
Score4869
Notable places within 2 km63207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 16 points.16
OsakaOslo
Score7054
Price level global62.485.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Osaka leads by 15 points.15
OsakaOslo
Score6348
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 33.6 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 185 mm40 mm to 104 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
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsakaOslo
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 38 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
MunichMUC
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
2 h 15 m
€187-227
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
3 h 30 m
€213-241
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
DohaDOH
10 h 0 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureOsakaOslo
Official languageJapaneseNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyYen (JPY)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation20 m23 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaOslo
City population2,751,862717,710
People per km²12,340
Museums within 10 km4360
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre9775
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under 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.