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Shitennō-ji temple, Osaka
OsakaShitennō-ji temple
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Osaka by Sarmat Batagov, Pexels License; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Osaka or Stockholm?

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

  • prices
  • day trips
  • food and drink

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Osaka 91, Stockholm 64: Osaka leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Osaka 63, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Osaka 80, Stockholm 57: Osaka leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Osaka 58, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Osaka 97, Stockholm 68: Osaka leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Osaka 88, Stockholm 82: Osaka leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Osaka 90, Stockholm 84: Osaka leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Osaka 80, Stockholm 70: Osaka leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Osaka 60, Stockholm 30: Osaka leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Osaka 66, Stockholm 65: Osaka leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Osaka 66, Stockholm 56: Osaka leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Osaka and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Osaka
Best match
73match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

Stockholm
64match

Wins on culture and sights and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Stockholm 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.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOsakaStockholm
Official languageJapaneseSwedish
CurrencyYen (JPY)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation20 m22 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaStockholm
City population2,751,862984,748
People per km²12,3405,260
Museums within 10 km44266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km63
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.

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.