VacationSelector

Osaka or Sao Paulo?

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 beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
56
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

OsakaSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 55 points.55
OsakaSao Paulo
Score550
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km250
Coast distance7 km51 km
Water distance7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 17 points.17
OsakaSao Paulo
Score9073
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9,1341,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2527
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 21 points.21
OsakaSao Paulo
Score6443
Museums within 10 km7882
Museums within 2 km of centre2226
Share of museums within 2 km %2832
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 25 points.25
OsakaSao Paulo
Score9772
Drinking venues within 4 km8,4731,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4,492896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5351
Nightclubs within 4 km97118
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 23 points.23
OsakaSao Paulo
Score2851
Protected land share 50 km %126
Landscape blanket share 50 km %115
Land share of disc %8495
Park area within 2 km88 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 17 points.17
OsakaSao Paulo
Score7255
Tourist attractions within 2 km4738
Park area within 2 km88 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km71
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo leads by 2 points.2
OsakaSao Paulo
Score4850
Notable places within 2 km6368
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 11 points.11
OsakaSao Paulo
Score7081
Price level global62.446.1
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 20 points.20
OsakaSao Paulo
Score6383
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 33.6 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 185 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months01
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
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Sea temperature, °C
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sao Paulo
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
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsakaSao Paulo
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
2 h 45 m
€327-334
KIX · 38 km
21 h 20 m
€1,139-1567
2 stops
GRU · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 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

MeasureOsakaSao Paulo
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 m760 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaSao Paulo
City population2,751,86211,451,999
People per km²12,3407,519
Museums within 10 km4390
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre9759
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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.