VacationSelector

Osaka or York?

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.

York
41
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

OsakaYork
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 55 points.55
OsakaYork
Score550
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km252
Coast distance7 km50 km
Water distance7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 36 points.36
OsakaYork
Score9054
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9,134361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2531
Museums & heritage. Osaka leads by 18 points.18
OsakaYork
Score6446
Museums within 10 km7818
Museums within 2 km of centre2216
Share of museums within 2 km %2889
Unesco sites within 50 km62
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 54 points.54
OsakaYork
Score9743
Drinking venues within 4 km8,473450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre4,492353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5378
Nightclubs within 4 km9714
Nature & day trips. York leads by 5 points.5
OsakaYork
Score2833
Protected land share 50 km %117
Landscape blanket share 50 km %116
Land share of disc %8495
Park area within 2 km88 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 29 points.29
OsakaYork
Score7243
Tourist attractions within 2 km4713
Park area within 2 km88 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km73
Sights concentration. Osaka leads by 9 points.9
OsakaYork
Score4839
Notable places within 2 km6337
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Osaka leads by 16 points.16
OsakaYork
Score7054
Price level global62.484.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Osaka leads by 7 points.7
OsakaYork
Score6356
Monthly daytime high9.7 °C to 33.6 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 185 mm39 mm to 66 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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsakaYork
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 38 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 38 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
2 h 45 m
€327-334
KIX · 38 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 10 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
Hong KongHKG
3 h 35 m
€254-314
KIX · 38 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
6 h 25 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
Abu DhabiAUH
9 h 40 m
€810-860
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureOsakaYork
Official languageJapaneseEnglish
CurrencyYen (JPY)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+9UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112 or 999
Elevation20 m25 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsakaYork
City population2,751,862208,400
People per km²12,340766
Museums within 10 km4324
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km62
Distinct cuisines in the centre9754
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. 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.