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Osaka hotel price calendar: which nights are cheap, which are expensive (3 Oct 2026 – 30 Dec 2026)

From the real rates of 80 popular hotels in Osaka, pulled 1 Oct 2026: of the 89 nights ahead, 39 are cheaper than usual, 15 are normal and 35 are pricier than usual. The cheapest 3-night window is Mon 14 Dec 2026 – Thu 17 Dec 2026 (−19% on average); the single most expensive night is Sat 31 Oct 2026 (+180%); the cheapest is Sun 4 Oct 2026 (−28%).

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 89 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 · 39 nights฿฿ normal · 15 nights฿฿฿ pricier than usual · 35 nights
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Calendar: every night, October 2026 to December 2026

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
3 +23%
4 −28%
5 −15%
6 −13%
7 +5%
8 +19%
9 +16%
10 +125%
11 +46%
12 −22%
13 −16%
14 +1%
15 +5%
16 +14%
17 +102%
18 −15%
19 0%
20 −6%
21 +9%
22 +16%
23 +33%
24 +111%
25 −13%
26 −15%
27 −12%
28 −7%
29 +3%
30 +17%
31 +180%

November 2026

Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
1 +32%
2 −12%
3 −15%
4 −5%
5 +1%
6 +9%
7 +102%
8 +9%
9 −13%
10 −7%
11 −5%
12 +3%
13 +17%
14 +138%
15 +3%
16 −9%
17 −2%
18 +4%
19 +11%
20 +45%
21 +143%
22 +59%
23 −15%
24 −15%
25 +4%
26 +7%
27 +27%
28 +77%
29 −12%
30 −17%

December 2026

Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
1 −15%
2 −9%
3 −4%
4 −4%
5 +56%
6 −14%
7 −19%
8 −19%
9 −15%
10 −1%
11 −8%
12 +59%
13 −8%
14 −21%
15 −21%
16 −14%
17 −11%
18 −11%
19 +47%
20 −15%
21 −21%
22 −17%
23 −11%
24 −8%
25 +20%
26 +72%
27 +18%
28 +10%
29 +17%
30 +21%

Week by week: how many cheap and expensive nights

Week of฿ cheap฿฿ normal฿฿฿ pricierMedian vs city
Mon 28 Sep 2026101−3%
Mon 5 Oct 2026214+16%
Mon 12 Oct 2026322+1%
Mon 19 Oct 2026214+9%
Mon 26 Oct 2026313+3%
Mon 2 Nov 2026223+1%
Mon 9 Nov 2026322+3%
Mon 16 Nov 2026124+11%
Mon 23 Nov 2026313+4%
Mon 30 Nov 2026421−9%
Mon 7 Dec 2026511−8%
Mon 14 Dec 2026601−14%
Mon 21 Dec 2026403−8%
Mon 28 Dec 2026003+17%

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

Cheapest nights

  1. Sun 4 Oct 202677/80−28%
  2. Mon 12 Oct 202678/80−22%
  3. Mon 14 Dec 202677/80−21%
  4. Tue 15 Dec 202677/80−21%
  5. Mon 21 Dec 202677/80−21%

Most expensive nights

  1. Sat 31 Oct 202652/80+180%
  2. Sat 21 Nov 202659/80+143%
  3. Sat 14 Nov 202658/80+138%
  4. Sat 10 Oct 202662/80+125%
  5. Sat 24 Oct 202660/80+111%

Weekend vs weekday

Friday and Saturday nights in Osaka run about 57% 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 −15%
  • Tue −15%
  • Wed −5%
  • Thu +3%
  • Fri +16%
  • Sat +102%
  • Sun −8%

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: 1 Oct 2026; oldest: 1 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 1 Oct 2026 pull, the cheapest 3-night window in Osaka is Mon 14 Dec 2026 – Thu 17 Dec 2026 (−19% on average), and the single cheapest night is Sun 4 Oct 2026 (−28% vs the city median). The five cheapest nights are Sun 4 Oct 2026 (−28%), Mon 12 Oct 2026 (−22%), Mon 14 Dec 2026 (−21%), Tue 15 Dec 2026 (−21%), Mon 21 Dec 2026 (−21%).

›Which nights in Osaka are the most expensive?

The five priciest nights in this pull are Sat 31 Oct 2026 (+180%), Sat 21 Nov 2026 (+143%), Sat 14 Nov 2026 (+138%), Sat 10 Oct 2026 (+125%), Sat 24 Oct 2026 (+111%). 35 of the 89 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 57% 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 1 Oct 2026; the search button shows live prices.

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