VacationSelector

Osaka or Singapore?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Singapore
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

OsakaSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 45 points.45
OsakaSingapore
Score55100
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km2542
Coast distance7 km2 km
Water distance7 km2 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 3 points.3
OsakaSingapore
Score9087
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9,1344,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2531
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 14 points.14
OsakaSingapore
Score6450
Museums within 10 km7857
Museums within 2 km of centre2226
Share of museums within 2 km %2846
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 23 points.23
OsakaSingapore
Score9774
Drinking venues within 4 km8,4731,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4,4921,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5371
Nightclubs within 4 km9777
Nature & day trips. Singapore leads by 6 points.6
OsakaSingapore
Score2834
Protected land share 50 km %11
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8453
Park area within 2 km88 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 4 points.4
OsakaSingapore
Score7268
Tourist attractions within 2 km4728
Park area within 2 km88 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km75
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 18 points.18
OsakaSingapore
Score4866
Notable places within 2 km63172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka and Singapore are level on 70.
OsakaSingapore
Score7070
Price level global62.462
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Osaka leads by 1 points.1
OsakaSingapore
Score6362
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 33.6 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 185 mm109 mm to 329 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
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Singapore
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5
5
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). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsakaSingapore
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 38 km
6 h 5 m
€240-286
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
TokyoHND, NRT
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 11 km
6 h 55 m
€310-338
SIN · 17 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 38 km
5 h 10 m
€214-241
SIN · 17 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
6 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
1 h 0 m
€85-88
SIN · 17 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 38 km
2 h 20 m
€157-169
SIN · 17 km
SapporoCTS, OKD
1 h 55 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ManilaMNL
3 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
18 h 45 m
€835
SIN · 17 km
Abu DhabiAUH
9 h 40 m
€810-860
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
SIN · 17 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

MeasureOsakaSingapore
Official languageJapaneseEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyYen (JPY)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation20 m21 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaSingapore
City population2,751,8625,866,139
People per km²12,3408,158
Museums within 10 km4340
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre97107
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.