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The Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens, Adelaide
AdelaideThe Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Adelaide or Yogyakarta?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Adelaide for

  • beaches
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Adelaide’s own page.

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Yogyakarta’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Adelaide 68, Yogyakarta 22: Adelaide leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Yogyakarta 62: Adelaide leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide 42, Yogyakarta 32: Adelaide leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Yogyakarta 40: Adelaide leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Yogyakarta 35: Adelaide leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Yogyakarta 58: Adelaide leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Yogyakarta.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Adelaide
56match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
55match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Adelaide in July

16 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Yogyakarta in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AdelaideYogyakarta

Where the figures come from

Yogyakarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideYogyakarta
Official languageEnglishIndonesian
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number000112
Elevation1 m113 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideYogyakarta
City population1,387,290422,732
People per km²1,07113,007
Museums within 10 km1338
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.