VacationSelector

Osaka or Toronto?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on 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.

OsakaToronto
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 12 points.12
OsakaToronto
Score5543
Swim season months51
Beaches 10 km2558
Coast distance7 km533 km
Water distance7 km5 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 8 points.8
OsakaToronto
Score9082
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9,1342,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2539
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 21 points.21
OsakaToronto
Score6443
Museums within 10 km7835
Museums within 2 km of centre2225
Share of museums within 2 km %2871
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 28 points.28
OsakaToronto
Score9769
Drinking venues within 4 km8,4731,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4,492966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5364
Nightclubs within 4 km97103
Nature & day trips. Osaka leads by 2 points.2
OsakaToronto
Score2826
Protected land share 50 km %12
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %84100
Park area within 2 km88 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 15 points.15
OsakaToronto
Score7257
Tourist attractions within 2 km4723
Park area within 2 km88 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km74
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 13 points.13
OsakaToronto
Score4861
Notable places within 2 km63128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 16 points.16
OsakaToronto
Score7054
Price level global62.484
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Osaka leads by 8 points.8
OsakaToronto
Score6355
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 33.6 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 185 mm51 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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Toronto
9
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
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsakaToronto
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 38 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
TokyoHND, NRT
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 11 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 38 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
San FranciscoSFO
10 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
4 h 55 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
2 h 45 m
€327-334
KIX · 38 km
13 h 5 m
€1,024-1087
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km
HonoluluHNL
8 h 25 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 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

MeasureOsakaToronto
Official languageJapaneseFrench, English
CurrencyYen (JPY)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
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 m76 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaToronto
City population2,751,8622,794,356
People per km²12,3404,434
Museums within 10 km4332
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre97102
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months1 month

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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.