VacationSelector

Osaka or Venice?

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.

Venice
57
match

Wins on sights concentration and beaches & swimming 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.

OsakaVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 14 points.14
OsakaVenice
Score5569
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km2520
Coast distance7 km4 km
Water distance7 km4 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 45 points.45
OsakaVenice
Score9045
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9,134750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2510
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 8 points.8
OsakaVenice
Score6472
Museums within 10 km7857
Museums within 2 km of centre2245
Share of museums within 2 km %2879
Unesco sites within 50 km65
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 62 points.62
OsakaVenice
Score9735
Drinking venues within 4 km8,473342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4,492306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5389
Nightclubs within 4 km973
Nature & day trips. Osaka leads by 11 points.11
OsakaVenice
Score2817
Protected land share 50 km %14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8470
Park area within 2 km88 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 15 points.15
OsakaVenice
Score7257
Tourist attractions within 2 km4772
Park area within 2 km88 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km73
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 35 points.35
OsakaVenice
Score4883
Notable places within 2 km63464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 2 points.2
OsakaVenice
Score7068
Price level global62.464.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 3 points.3
OsakaVenice
Score6366
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 33.6 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 185 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months02
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsakaVenice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 38 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
2 h 20 m
€148-150
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
MunichMUC
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
1 h 5 m
€268-289
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 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

MeasureOsakaVenice
Official languageJapaneseItalian
CurrencyYen (JPY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation20 m2 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaVenice
City population2,751,862250,369
People per km²12,340602
Museums within 10 km4352
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km65
Distinct cuisines in the centre9746
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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.