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The Explanada de España, Alicante
AlicanteThe Explanada de España
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Alicante by Emilio Sánchez Hernández, Pexels License; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Alicante 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 Alicante for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • nightlife

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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. Alicante 82, Yogyakarta 22: Alicante leads by 60 points.
Food & drink. Alicante 67, Yogyakarta 62: Alicante leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Alicante 46, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Alicante 60, Yogyakarta 32: Alicante leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alicante 63, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Alicante 72, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Alicante 68, Yogyakarta 40: Alicante leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Alicante 66, Yogyakarta 35: Alicante leads by 31 points.
Shopping & style. Alicante 44, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Alicante 60, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alicante 37, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alicante 40, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alicante and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Alicante
Best match
59match

Wins on beaches and getting around 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.

Alicante in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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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AlicanteYogyakarta

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. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureAlicanteYogyakarta
Official languageSpanishIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m113 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteYogyakarta
City population366,221422,732
People per km²1,81913,007
Museums within 10 km838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 months

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.