VacationSelector

Osaka or West Palm Beach?

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.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

OsakaWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 33 points.33
OsakaWest Palm Beach
Score5588
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km2510
Coast distance7 km0 km
Water distance7 km0 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 53 points.53
OsakaWest Palm Beach
Score9037
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9,134262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2514
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 47 points.47
OsakaWest Palm Beach
Score6417
Museums within 10 km785
Museums within 2 km of centre223
Share of museums within 2 km %2860
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 77 points.77
OsakaWest Palm Beach
Score9720
Drinking venues within 4 km8,473132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4,49290
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5368
Nightclubs within 4 km9710
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 41 points.41
OsakaWest Palm Beach
Score2869
Protected land share 50 km %115
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8445
Park area within 2 km88 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 51 points.51
OsakaWest Palm Beach
Score7221
Tourist attractions within 2 km473
Park area within 2 km88 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km71
Sights concentration. Osaka leads by 36 points.36
OsakaWest Palm Beach
Score4812
Notable places within 2 km638
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 27 points.27
OsakaWest Palm Beach
Score7043
Price level global62.4100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 12 points.12
OsakaWest Palm Beach
Score6375
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 33.6 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 185 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
West Palm Beach
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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsakaWest Palm Beach
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
San FranciscoSFO
10 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
5 h 35 m
€349-373
2 stops
FLL · 72 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 10 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
12 h 55 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
DetroitDTW, DET, YIP
13 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MinneapolisMSP, STP
12 h 20 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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

MeasureOsakaWest Palm Beach
Official languageJapanese
CurrencyYen (JPY)US Dollar (USD)
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 m6 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaWest Palm Beach
City population2,751,862117,415
People per km²12,340786
Museums within 10 km434
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre9718
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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. 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.