VacationSelector

Osaka or Palermo?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Palermo
55
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming 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.

OsakaPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 12 points.12
OsakaPalermo
Score5567
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km2513
Coast distance7 km1 km
Water distance7 km1 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 40 points.40
OsakaPalermo
Score9050
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9,134807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2513
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 14 points.14
OsakaPalermo
Score6450
Museums within 10 km7832
Museums within 2 km of centre2226
Share of museums within 2 km %2881
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 44 points.44
OsakaPalermo
Score9753
Drinking venues within 4 km8,473799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4,492515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5364
Nightclubs within 4 km9716
Nature & day trips. Palermo leads by 8 points.8
OsakaPalermo
Score2836
Protected land share 50 km %14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8445
Park area within 2 km88 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 31 points.31
OsakaPalermo
Score7241
Tourist attractions within 2 km4716
Park area within 2 km88 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km70
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 9 points.9
OsakaPalermo
Score4857
Notable places within 2 km63104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 2 points.2
OsakaPalermo
Score7068
Price level global62.464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 14 points.14
OsakaPalermo
Score6377
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 33.6 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 185 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months07
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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsakaPalermo
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
2 h 15 m
€101-154
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
MunichMUC
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
2 h 0 m
€175-215
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
PMO · 25 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

MeasureOsakaPalermo
Official languageJapaneseItalian
CurrencyYen (JPY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation20 m14 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaPalermo
City population2,751,862630,167
People per km²12,3403,924
Museums within 10 km4342
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre9733
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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.