VacationSelector

Osaka or Seattle?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Seattle
52
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming 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.

OsakaSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 5 points.5
OsakaSeattle
Score5560
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km25100
Coast distance7 km1 km
Water distance7 km1 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 15 points.15
OsakaSeattle
Score9075
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9,1341,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2535
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 28 points.28
OsakaSeattle
Score6436
Museums within 10 km7828
Museums within 2 km of centre2217
Share of museums within 2 km %2861
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 40 points.40
OsakaSeattle
Score9757
Drinking venues within 4 km8,473873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4,492696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5380
Nightclubs within 4 km9734
Nature & day trips. Seattle leads by 12 points.12
OsakaSeattle
Score2840
Protected land share 50 km %19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8480
Park area within 2 km88 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 26 points.26
OsakaSeattle
Score7246
Tourist attractions within 2 km4717
Park area within 2 km88 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km71
Sights concentration. Seattle leads by 4 points.4
OsakaSeattle
Score4852
Notable places within 2 km6376
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 27 points.27
OsakaSeattle
Score7043
Price level global62.4100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Osaka leads by 2 points.2
OsakaSeattle
Score6361
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 33.6 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 185 mm15 mm to 160 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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Seattle
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). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsakaSeattle
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 38 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
TokyoHND, NRT
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 11 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 30 m
€111-203
SEA · 18 km
HonoluluHNL
8 h 25 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 38 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
San FranciscoSFO
10 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
12 h 55 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
3 h 55 m
€257-317
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 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

MeasureOsakaSeattle
Official languageJapanese
CurrencyYen (JPY)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation20 m40 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaSeattle
City population2,751,862737,015
People per km²12,3401,996
Museums within 10 km4327
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre9778
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. 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.