VacationSelector

Osaka or Riga?

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.

Riga
53
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.

OsakaRiga
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 15 points.15
OsakaRiga
Score5540
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km2557
Coast distance7 km12 km
Water distance7 km12 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 31 points.31
OsakaRiga
Score9059
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9,134470
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2533
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 3 points.3
OsakaRiga
Score6461
Museums within 10 km7869
Museums within 2 km of centre2247
Share of museums within 2 km %2868
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 46 points.46
OsakaRiga
Score9751
Drinking venues within 4 km8,473584
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4,492456
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5378
Nightclubs within 4 km9754
Nature & day trips. Riga leads by 16 points.16
OsakaRiga
Score2844
Protected land share 50 km %110
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8473
Park area within 2 km88 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 37 points.37
OsakaRiga
Score7235
Tourist attractions within 2 km477
Park area within 2 km88 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km71
Sights concentration. Riga leads by 14 points.14
OsakaRiga
Score4862
Notable places within 2 km63137
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Riga leads by 6 points.6
OsakaRiga
Score7076
Price level global62.453.7
Daily budget—€132
Year-round weather. Osaka leads by 11 points.11
OsakaRiga
Score6352
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 33.6 °C-0.1 °C to 23.5 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 185 mm33 mm to 87 mm
Dry months03
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
Riga
0
0
4
12
17
21
24
22
17
11
5
1
Sea temperature, °C
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Riga
2
1
1
3
9
14
18
19
16
11
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Riga
43
40
35
33
52
69
87
78
65
82
58
50
Daylight, hours per day
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Riga
8
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Riga
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre). Riga: 1991-2020 normals, Riga (4.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsakaRiga
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
HelsinkiHEL
9 h 45 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
MunichMUC
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
RIX · 9 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
RIX · 9 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

MeasureOsakaRiga
Official languageJapaneseLatvian
CurrencyYen (JPY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation20 m6 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsRiga International Airport (RIX)9 km from centre101 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days–

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaRiga
City population2,751,862588,911
People per km²12,340–
Museums within 10 km4312
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre9755
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.