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Osaka or The Hague?

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.

The Hague
57
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.

OsakaThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 5 points.5
OsakaThe Hague
Score5560
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km2534
Coast distance7 km3 km
Water distance7 km3 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 20 points.20
OsakaThe Hague
Score9070
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9,134798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2543
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 2 points.2
OsakaThe Hague
Score6462
Museums within 10 km7846
Museums within 2 km of centre2226
Share of museums within 2 km %2857
Unesco sites within 50 km64
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 51 points.51
OsakaThe Hague
Score9746
Drinking venues within 4 km8,473511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4,492288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5356
Nightclubs within 4 km9719
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 26 points.26
OsakaThe Hague
Score2854
Protected land share 50 km %18
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8456
Park area within 2 km88 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 16 points.16
OsakaThe Hague
Score7256
Tourist attractions within 2 km4710
Park area within 2 km88 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km77
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 6 points.6
OsakaThe Hague
Score4854
Notable places within 2 km6386
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 12 points.12
OsakaThe Hague
Score7058
Price level global62.479.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. Osaka leads by 9 points.9
OsakaThe Hague
Score6354
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 33.6 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 185 mm42 mm to 85 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
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsakaThe Hague
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 38 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 38 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
TokyoHND, NRT
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 11 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 38 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Hong KongHKG
3 h 35 m
€254-314
KIX · 38 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
6 h 25 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 40 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

MeasureOsakaThe Hague
Official languageJapaneseDutch
CurrencyYen (JPY)Euro (EUR)
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 or 911
Elevation20 m1 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaThe Hague
City population2,751,862548,320
People per km²12,3405,589
Museums within 10 km4354
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km64
Distinct cuisines in the centre9777
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.