VacationSelector

Osaka or Strasbourg?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

OsakaStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 55 points.55
OsakaStrasbourg
Score550
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km259
Coast distance7 km398 km
Water distance7 km—
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 23 points.23
OsakaStrasbourg
Score9067
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9,134780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2536
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 23 points.23
OsakaStrasbourg
Score6441
Museums within 10 km7823
Museums within 2 km of centre2214
Share of museums within 2 km %2861
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 61 points.61
OsakaStrasbourg
Score9736
Drinking venues within 4 km8,473305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4,492264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5387
Nightclubs within 4 km9717
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 26 points.26
OsakaStrasbourg
Score2854
Protected land share 50 km %137
Landscape blanket share 50 km %135
Land share of disc %84100
Park area within 2 km88 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 34 points.34
OsakaStrasbourg
Score7238
Tourist attractions within 2 km479
Park area within 2 km88 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km71
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 10 points.10
OsakaStrasbourg
Score4858
Notable places within 2 km63109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 8 points.8
OsakaStrasbourg
Score7062
Price level global62.473.7
Daily budget—€160
Year-round weather. Osaka and Strasbourg are level on 63.
OsakaStrasbourg
Score6363
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 33.6 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 185 mm34 mm to 77 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
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Strasbourg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsakaStrasbourg
BangkokBKK, DMK
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 38 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 38 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
TokyoHND, NRT
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 11 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 38 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
Hong KongHKG
3 h 35 m
€254-314
KIX · 38 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
6 h 25 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
Abu DhabiAUH
9 h 40 m
€810-860
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
6 h 15 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 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

MeasureOsakaStrasbourg
Official languageJapaneseFrench
CurrencyYen (JPY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation20 m132 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaStrasbourg
City population2,751,862293,771
People per km²12,3403,752
Museums within 10 km4321
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre9787
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. 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.