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Osaka or Tirana?

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 museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

Tirana
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money 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.

OsakaTirana
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 38 points.38
OsakaTirana
Score5517
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km250
Coast distance7 km26 km
Water distance7 km26 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 35 points.35
OsakaTirana
Score9055
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9,134572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2522
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 39 points.39
OsakaTirana
Score6425
Museums within 10 km7812
Museums within 2 km of centre228
Share of museums within 2 km %2867
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 39 points.39
OsakaTirana
Score9758
Drinking venues within 4 km8,473945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4,492683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5372
Nightclubs within 4 km9729
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 21 points.21
OsakaTirana
Score2849
Protected land share 50 km %111
Landscape blanket share 50 km %13
Land share of disc %8483
Park area within 2 km88 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 20 points.20
OsakaTirana
Score7252
Tourist attractions within 2 km4721
Park area within 2 km88 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km70
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 5 points.5
OsakaTirana
Score4853
Notable places within 2 km6383
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 14 points.14
OsakaTirana
Score7084
Price level global62.442.6
Daily budget€76
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 4 points.4
OsakaTirana
Score6367
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 33.6 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 185 mm43 mm to 172 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
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Tirana
4
4
5
6
9
10
12
11
9
7
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). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsakaTirana
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€94-143
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€120-141
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€109-148
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
2 h 35 m
€169-220
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€30-52
TIA · 13 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 10 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 13 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

MeasureOsakaTirana
Official languageJapaneseAlbanian
CurrencyYen (JPY)Lek (ALL)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation20 m110 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaTirana
City population2,751,862389,323
People per km²12,3409,314
Museums within 10 km4311
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre9746
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.