VacationSelector

Osaka or Rome?

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 places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

OsakaRome
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 22 points.22
OsakaRome
Score5533
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km253
Coast distance7 km24 km
Water distance7 km24 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 30 points.30
OsakaRome
Score9060
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9,1342,241
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2510
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 20 points.20
OsakaRome
Score6484
Museums within 10 km78161
Museums within 2 km of centre2279
Share of museums within 2 km %2849
Unesco sites within 50 km67
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 23 points.23
OsakaRome
Score9774
Drinking venues within 4 km8,4732,022
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4,492912
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5345
Nightclubs within 4 km9785
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 42 points.42
OsakaRome
Score2870
Protected land share 50 km %119
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8478
Park area within 2 km88 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 14 points.14
OsakaRome
Score7286
Tourist attractions within 2 km47126
Park area within 2 km88 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km74
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 51 points.51
OsakaRome
Score4899
Notable places within 2 km631,125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 2 points.2
OsakaRome
Score7068
Price level global62.464.9
Daily budget—€155
Year-round weather. Rome leads by 8 points.8
OsakaRome
Score6371
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 33.6 °C12 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 185 mm21 mm to 114 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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Daylight, hours per day
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsakaRome
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 38 km
11 h 15 m
€630-760
FCO · 23 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
TokyoHND, NRT
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 11 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 38 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 38 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
2 h 15 m
€136-291
FCO · 23 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€96-147
FCO · 23 km
Abu DhabiAUH
9 h 40 m
€810-860
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
5 h 45 m
€280-355
2 stops
FCO · 23 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

MeasureOsakaRome
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 m21 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaRome
City population2,751,8622,748,109
People per km²12,3402,135
Museums within 10 km43177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km67
Distinct cuisines in the centre9765
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.