VacationSelector

Osaka or Vienna?

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 beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Vienna
59
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

OsakaVienna
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 55 points.55
OsakaVienna
Score550
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km2522
Coast distance7 km10,000 km
Water distance7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 13 points.13
OsakaVienna
Score9077
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9,1341,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2537
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 17 points.17
OsakaVienna
Score6481
Museums within 10 km78192
Museums within 2 km of centre22110
Share of museums within 2 km %2857
Unesco sites within 50 km63
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 23 points.23
OsakaVienna
Score9774
Drinking venues within 4 km8,4731,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4,4921,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5356
Nightclubs within 4 km97108
Nature & day trips. Vienna leads by 4 points.4
OsakaVienna
Score2832
Protected land share 50 km %14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %84100
Park area within 2 km88 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 3 points.3
OsakaVienna
Score7269
Tourist attractions within 2 km4746
Park area within 2 km88 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km74
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 27 points.27
OsakaVienna
Score4875
Notable places within 2 km63287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 11 points.11
OsakaVienna
Score7059
Price level global62.476.9
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Osaka leads by 2 points.2
OsakaVienna
Score6361
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 33.6 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 185 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months01
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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsakaVienna
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 38 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
TokyoHND, NRT
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 11 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 38 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 38 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
2 h 5 m
€121-285
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 18 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

MeasureOsakaVienna
Official languageJapaneseGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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
Elevation20 m151 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaVienna
City population2,751,8622,028,289
People per km²12,3404,890
Museums within 10 km43152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km63
Distinct cuisines in the centre97113
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.