VacationSelector
Shitennō-ji temple, Osaka
OsakaShitennō-ji temple
A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town

Photos: Osaka by Sarmat Batagov, Pexels License; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Osaka or San Miguel de Allende?

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

  • families
  • nightlife
  • getting around

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

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

San Miguel de Allende does not lead in any category we score.

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’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, San Miguel de Allende 4: Osaka leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Osaka 91, San Miguel de Allende 62: Osaka leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Osaka 63, San Miguel de Allende 62: Osaka leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Osaka 80, San Miguel de Allende 38: Osaka leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. Osaka 58, San Miguel de Allende 40: Osaka leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Osaka 97, San Miguel de Allende 77: Osaka leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Osaka 88, San Miguel de Allende 32: Osaka leads by 56 points.
Getting around. Osaka 90, San Miguel de Allende 48: Osaka leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Osaka 80, San Miguel de Allende 55: Osaka leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Osaka 60, San Miguel de Allende 50: Osaka leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Osaka 66, San Miguel de Allende 40: Osaka leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Osaka and San Miguel de Allende are level on 66.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Osaka and San Miguel de Allende.

Your match

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

Osaka
Best match
73match

Wins on families and nightlife with your weighting.

San Miguel de Allende
48match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

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

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

050100150200JFMAMJJASOND
OsakaSan Miguel de Allende

Where the figures come from

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende 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). San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOsakaSan Miguel de Allende
Official languageJapaneseSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyYen (JPY)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC-6
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation20 m1,900 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaSan Miguel de Allende
City population2,751,86269,811
People per km²12,340-
Museums within 10 km442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km62
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months-

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Osaka or San Miguel de Allende somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.