VacationSelector

Osaka or Sorrento?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Sorrento
37
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

OsakaSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 22 points.22
OsakaSorrento
Score5577
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km2578
Coast distance7 km0 km
Water distance7 km0 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 71 points.71
OsakaSorrento
Score9019
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9,134249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km255
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 27 points.27
OsakaSorrento
Score6437
Museums within 10 km787
Museums within 2 km of centre224
Share of museums within 2 km %2857
Unesco sites within 50 km65
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 75 points.75
OsakaSorrento
Score9722
Drinking venues within 4 km8,473179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4,492131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5373
Nightclubs within 4 km972
Nature & day trips. Osaka leads by 5 points.5
OsakaSorrento
Score2823
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8442
Park area within 2 km88 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 67 points.67
OsakaSorrento
Score725
Tourist attractions within 2 km472
Park area within 2 km88 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km71
Sights concentration. Osaka leads by 38 points.38
OsakaSorrento
Score4810
Notable places within 2 km637
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 2 points.2
OsakaSorrento
Score7068
Price level global62.464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Sorrento leads by 10 points.10
OsakaSorrento
Score6373
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 33.6 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 185 mm17 mm to 159 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
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Sorrento
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
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). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsakaSorrento
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€132-252
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
MunichMUC
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
NAP · 30 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 2026-09 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

MeasureOsakaSorrento
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 m50 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaSorrento
City population2,751,86215,407
People per km²12,3401,541
Museums within 10 km435
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km65
Distinct cuisines in the centre9711
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.