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Osaka or Reykjavik?

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.

Reykjavik
46
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

OsakaReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 5 points.5
OsakaReykjavik
Score5560
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km2533
Coast distance7 km0 km
Water distance7 km0 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 41 points.41
OsakaReykjavik
Score9049
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9,134261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2529
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 14 points.14
OsakaReykjavik
Score6450
Museums within 10 km7834
Museums within 2 km of centre2223
Share of museums within 2 km %2868
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 70 points.70
OsakaReykjavik
Score9727
Drinking venues within 4 km8,473192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4,492166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5386
Nightclubs within 4 km9710
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 31 points.31
OsakaReykjavik
Score2859
Protected land share 50 km %116
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8456
Park area within 2 km88 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 30 points.30
OsakaReykjavik
Score7242
Tourist attractions within 2 km4721
Park area within 2 km88 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km71
Sights concentration. Osaka and Reykjavik are level on 48.
OsakaReykjavik
Score4848
Notable places within 2 km6361
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 29 points.29
OsakaReykjavik
Score7041
Price level global62.4102.8
Daily budget€243
Year-round weather. Osaka leads by 26 points.26
OsakaReykjavik
Score6337
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 33.6 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 185 mm41 mm to 97 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
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsakaReykjavik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 10 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
5 h 35 m
€426-480
KEF · 37 km
HelsinkiHEL
9 h 45 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
3 h 35 m
€268-383
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
10 h 10 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
2 h 45 m
€327-334
KIX · 38 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
KEF · 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

MeasureOsakaReykjavik
Official languageJapaneseIcelandic
CurrencyYen (JPY)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation20 m8 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaReykjavik
City population2,751,862138,772
People per km²12,340569
Museums within 10 km4323
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre9742
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.