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Osaka or Thessaloniki?

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 places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
59
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

OsakaThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. Osaka and Thessaloniki are level on 55.
OsakaThessaloniki
Score5555
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km254
Coast distance7 km0 km
Water distance7 km0 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 40 points.40
OsakaThessaloniki
Score9050
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9,134640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2515
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 15 points.15
OsakaThessaloniki
Score6449
Museums within 10 km7834
Museums within 2 km of centre2222
Share of museums within 2 km %2865
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 30 points.30
OsakaThessaloniki
Score9767
Drinking venues within 4 km8,4731,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4,492805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5357
Nightclubs within 4 km9761
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 37 points.37
OsakaThessaloniki
Score2865
Protected land share 50 km %125
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8483
Park area within 2 km88 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 31 points.31
OsakaThessaloniki
Score7241
Tourist attractions within 2 km4716
Park area within 2 km88 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km71
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 8 points.8
OsakaThessaloniki
Score4856
Notable places within 2 km6398
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 4 points.4
OsakaThessaloniki
Score7074
Price level global62.455.8
Daily budget—€125
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 9 points.9
OsakaThessaloniki
Score6372
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 33.6 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 185 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months09
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
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Thessaloniki
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
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsakaThessaloniki
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 40 m
€127-199
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
2 h 30 m
€119-127
SKG · 14 km
MunichMUC
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
2 h 10 m
€188-242
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
1 h 15 m
€151-156
SKG · 14 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
2 h 55 m
€225-285
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
1 h 45 m
€117-203
1 stop
SKG · 14 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

MeasureOsakaThessaloniki
Official languageJapaneseGreek
CurrencyYen (JPY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation20 m6 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaThessaloniki
City population2,751,862309,617
People per km²12,34016,042
Museums within 10 km4331
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre9745
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.