VacationSelector

Osaka or Tampa?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Tampa
44
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.

OsakaTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 20 points.20
OsakaTampa
Score5575
Swim season months58
Beaches 10 km2510
Coast distance7 km1 km
Water distance7 km1 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 36 points.36
OsakaTampa
Score9054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9,134359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2531
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 37 points.37
OsakaTampa
Score6427
Museums within 10 km7813
Museums within 2 km of centre2210
Share of museums within 2 km %2877
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 58 points.58
OsakaTampa
Score9739
Drinking venues within 4 km8,473324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4,492227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5370
Nightclubs within 4 km9726
Nature & day trips. Tampa leads by 2 points.2
OsakaTampa
Score2830
Protected land share 50 km %16
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8472
Park area within 2 km88 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 42 points.42
OsakaTampa
Score7230
Tourist attractions within 2 km473
Park area within 2 km88 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km75
Sights concentration. Osaka leads by 27 points.27
OsakaTampa
Score4821
Notable places within 2 km6313
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 27 points.27
OsakaTampa
Score7043
Price level global62.4100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 12 points.12
OsakaTampa
Score6375
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 33.6 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 185 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months01
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsakaTampa
TokyoHND, NRT
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 11 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
12 h 55 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 10 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
MemphisMEM
13 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
DetroitDTW, DET, YIP
13 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 30 m
€115-144
TPA · 8 km
MinneapolisMSP, STP
12 h 20 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureOsakaTampa
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-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119911
Elevation20 m30 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaTampa
City population2,751,862384,959
People per km²12,340848
Museums within 10 km436
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre9747
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months8 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. 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.