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Osaka hotel price calendar: which nights are cheap, which are expensive (21 Oct 2026 – 13 Jan 2027)

From the real rates of 80 popular hotels in Osaka, pulled 15 Oct 2026: of the 85 nights ahead, 35 are cheaper than usual, 13 are normal and 37 are pricier than usual. The cheapest 3-night window is Sun 20 Dec 2026 – Wed 23 Dec 2026 (−21% on average); the single most expensive night is Sat 31 Oct 2026 (+240%); the cheapest is Sun 20 Dec 2026 (−23%).

This page is rooozt's own price index for Osaka, rebuilt every week from a fixed set of the city's 80 most-reviewed hotels. Every night is priced with the same occupancy (2 adults, 1 room) and compared with the median of all 85 nights of the same city — so "cheap" here means cheaper than Osaka's own coming quarter, never cheaper than another city or another website. Use it to pick dates; use the search button to see live prices for them.

฿ cheaper than usual · 35 nights฿฿ normal · 13 nights฿฿฿ pricier than usual · 37 nights
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Calendar: every night, October 2026 to January 2027

Green = ฿ at least 5% below the city median · yellow = ฿฿ within ±5% · red = ฿฿฿ at least 5% above · white = no reading for that night (fewer than 20 of the 80 hotels returned a rate).

October 2026

Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
21 +19%
22 +26%
23 +38%
24 +221%
25 −4%
26 −10%
27 +3%
28 +8%
29 +6%
30 +22%
31 +240%

November 2026

Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
1 +35%
2 −12%
3 −13%
4 −13%
5 +7%
6 +14%
7 +127%
8 +14%
9 −9%
10 −3%
11 0%
12 +5%
13 +26%
14 +184%
15 +12%
16 −6%
17 0%
18 0%
19 +13%
20 +61%
21 +172%
22 +55%
23 −15%
24 −11%
25 0%
26 +3%
27 +25%
28 +88%
29 −6%
30 −13%

December 2026

Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
1 −9%
2 +2%
3 +2%
4 −1%
5 +63%
6 −13%
7 −17%
8 −17%
9 −9%
10 +3%
11 −4%
12 +55%
13 −9%
14 −18%
15 −18%
16 −14%
17 −9%
18 −13%
19 +51%
20 −23%
21 −22%
22 −19%
23 −9%
24 −8%
25 +25%
26 +74%
27 +18%
28 +11%
29 +13%
30 +17%
31 +80%

January 2027

Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
1 +37%
2 +19%
3 −18%
4 −6%
5 −6%
6 −6%
7 −8%
8 −20%
9 +28%
10 +28%
11 −18%
12 −18%
13 −23%

Week by week: how many cheap and expensive nights

Week of฿ cheap฿฿ normal฿฿฿ pricierMedian vs city
Mon 19 Oct 2026014+26%
Mon 26 Oct 2026115+8%
Mon 2 Nov 2026304+7%
Mon 9 Nov 2026124+5%
Mon 16 Nov 2026124+13%
Mon 23 Nov 20263220%
Mon 30 Nov 2026331−1%
Mon 7 Dec 2026421−9%
Mon 14 Dec 2026601−14%
Mon 21 Dec 2026403−8%
Mon 28 Dec 2026106+17%
Mon 4 Jan 2027502−6%
Mon 11 Jan 2027300−18%

The five cheapest and five most expensive nights (small figure = hotels with a rate / set)

Cheapest nights

  1. Sun 20 Dec 202677/80−23%
  2. Wed 13 Jan 202775/80−23%
  3. Mon 21 Dec 202677/80−22%
  4. Fri 8 Jan 202777/80−20%
  5. Tue 22 Dec 202677/80−19%

Most expensive nights

  1. Sat 31 Oct 202646/80+240%
  2. Sat 24 Oct 202644/80+221%
  3. Sat 14 Nov 202651/80+184%
  4. Sat 21 Nov 202648/80+172%
  5. Sat 7 Nov 202663/80+127%

Weekend vs weekday

Friday and Saturday nights in Osaka run about 47% above Monday–Thursday nights in this pull (median of each group). If your dates are flexible, shifting a weekend stay to midweek is the simplest saving on this page.

  • Mon −12%
  • Tue −10%
  • Wed 0%
  • Thu +4%
  • Fri +24%
  • Sat +81%
  • Sun +4%

How this index is calculated

rooozt keeps a fixed "universe" of Osaka's 80 most-reviewed hotels (review score ≥ 7, ≥ 100 reviews) and, through its own feed access, asks for every one of them for every night of the next 90 — 2 adults, 1 room, Thai baht, before taxes — a few nights at a time, so the whole set refreshes about weekly. For each night it stores only the median rate across those hotels, then divides by the median of all nights: that ratio is the number shown as a percentage. Bands: ฿ ≤ −5%, ฿฿฿ ≥ +5%. Newest reading in this build: 15 Oct 2026; oldest: 15 Oct 2026. No individual hotel's rate is stored or shown.

What this page is not

It is not a price list, not a forecast and not a guarantee: rates change by the hour, and a night marked ฿ can still be expensive at a specific hotel. It compares Osaka with itself only — it says nothing about whether Osaka is a cheap destination. Nights with fewer than 20 readings are left blank rather than guessed. On nights where many of the 80 hotels are already sold out, the median comes only from the rooms still open — usually the dearer ones — so a very high figure (shown with its hotel count, e.g. 47/80) means "pricier AND the cheap rooms are gone", not a pure price rise. For live prices on the dates you choose, use the search button.

Questions people ask

›When are hotels in Osaka cheapest in the next three months?

In rooozt's 15 Oct 2026 pull, the cheapest 3-night window in Osaka is Sun 20 Dec 2026 – Wed 23 Dec 2026 (−21% on average), and the single cheapest night is Sun 20 Dec 2026 (−23% vs the city median). The five cheapest nights are Sun 20 Dec 2026 (−23%), Wed 13 Jan 2027 (−23%), Mon 21 Dec 2026 (−22%), Fri 8 Jan 2027 (−20%), Tue 22 Dec 2026 (−19%).

›Which nights in Osaka are the most expensive?

The five priciest nights in this pull are Sat 31 Oct 2026 (+240%), Sat 24 Oct 2026 (+221%), Sat 14 Nov 2026 (+184%), Sat 21 Nov 2026 (+172%), Sat 7 Nov 2026 (+127%). 37 of the 85 nights ahead are at least 5% above Osaka's median.

›Are weekends more expensive than weekdays in Osaka?

Friday and Saturday nights in Osaka run about 47% above Monday–Thursday nights in this pull (median of each group). If your dates are flexible, shifting a weekend stay to midweek is the simplest saving on this page.

›Where do these numbers come from, and how often are they updated?

From rooozt's own feed access: the same 80 popular Osaka hotels are priced for every night of the next 90 with the same occupancy, a few nights per pass, so the set refreshes about once a week. Each night's figure is its median rate divided by the median of all nights — a ratio, not a price. This page was built from the pull of 15 Oct 2026; the search button shows live prices.

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