VacationSelector

Osaka or Rio de Janeiro?

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

Your match

Osaka
65
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Rio de Janeiro
✓ Best match
69
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

OsakaRio de Janeiro
Beaches & swimming. Rio de Janeiro leads by 45 points.45
OsakaRio de Janeiro
Score55100
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km2561
Coast distance7 km1 km
Water distance7 km1 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 36 points.36
OsakaRio de Janeiro
Score9054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9,134804
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2516
Museums & heritage. Rio de Janeiro leads by 5 points.5
OsakaRio de Janeiro
Score6469
Museums within 10 km78110
Museums within 2 km of centre2251
Share of museums within 2 km %2846
Unesco sites within 50 km63
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 40 points.40
OsakaRio de Janeiro
Score9757
Drinking venues within 4 km8,473818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4,492509
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5362
Nightclubs within 4 km9750
Nature & day trips. Rio de Janeiro leads by 34 points.34
OsakaRio de Janeiro
Score2862
Protected land share 50 km %121
Landscape blanket share 50 km %117
Land share of disc %8457
Park area within 2 km88 hectares113 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 13 points.13
OsakaRio de Janeiro
Score7259
Tourist attractions within 2 km4730
Park area within 2 km88 hectares113 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km71
Sights concentration. Rio de Janeiro leads by 8 points.8
OsakaRio de Janeiro
Score4856
Notable places within 2 km6398
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rio de Janeiro leads by 11 points.11
OsakaRio de Janeiro
Score7081
Price level global62.446.1
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Rio de Janeiro leads by 22 points.22
OsakaRio de Janeiro
Score6385
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 33.6 °C24 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 185 mm42 mm to 232 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
Rio de Janeiro
28
28
28
27
25
24
24
25
25
26
26
27
Sea temperature, °C
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rio de Janeiro
25
25
25
25
24
23
22
21
21
22
23
24
Rainfall, mm
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Rio de Janeiro
208
151
173
101
71
49
45
42
69
108
220
232
Daylight, hours per day
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Rio de Janeiro
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Rio de Janeiro
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). Rio de Janeiro: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromOsakaRio de Janeiro
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
9 h 45 m
€609-699
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
11 h 30 m
€957-1014
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 10 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
11 h 55 m
€915-1205
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
11 h 35 m
€996-1109
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
14 h 40 m
€1,154-1306
GIG · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
11 h 55 m
€900-974
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
11 h 25 m
€897-908
GIG · 12 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

MeasureOsakaRio de Janeiro
Official languageJapanesePortuguese
CurrencyYen (JPY)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCN60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC-3
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation20 m31 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsRio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaRio de Janeiro
City population2,751,8626,211,223
People per km²12,3404,930
Museums within 10 km4370
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km63
Distinct cuisines in the centre9727
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.