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Shitennō-ji temple, Osaka
OsakaShitennō-ji temple
Palms on a white beach at Cap Cana, Punta Cana
Punta CanaPalms on a white beach at Cap Cana

Photos: Osaka by Sarmat Batagov, Pexels License; Punta Cana by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, CC0.

Osaka or Punta Cana?

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 Osaka for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • food and drink

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

Choose Punta Cana for

  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Punta Cana’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. Osaka 34, Punta Cana 94: Punta Cana leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Osaka 91, Punta Cana 30: Osaka leads by 61 points.
Culture & sights. Osaka 63, Punta Cana 8: Osaka leads by 55 points.
Nightlife. Osaka 80, Punta Cana 40: Osaka leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Osaka 58, Punta Cana 52: Osaka leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Osaka 97, Punta Cana 35: Osaka leads by 62 points.
Good for families. Osaka 88, Punta Cana 68: Osaka leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Osaka 90, Punta Cana 15: Osaka leads by 75 points.
Shopping & style. Osaka 80, Punta Cana 30: Osaka leads by 50 points.
Affordability. Osaka 60, Punta Cana 44: Osaka leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Osaka 66, Punta Cana 15: Osaka leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Osaka 66, Punta Cana 52: Osaka leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Osaka and Punta Cana.

Your match

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

Osaka
Best match
73match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Punta Cana
40match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Punta Cana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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OsakaPunta Cana

Where the figures come from

Punta Cana has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre). Punta Cana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOsakaPunta Cana
Official languageJapaneseSpanish
CurrencyYen (JPY)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC-4
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation20 m28 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsPunta Cana International Airport (PUJ)1 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaPunta Cana
City population2,751,862138,919
People per km²12,340292
Museums within 10 km440
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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. 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.

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.