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Athens or Ubud?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Parthenon on the Acropolis, Athens
Athens

Photo: Ranjeet Kumar Singh, Pexels License

Rice terraces and palms at Tegallalang, Ubud
Ubud

Photo: Pinterpandai, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.

Ubud
54
match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

AthensUbud
Beaches & swimming. Athens leads by 30 points.30
Food & drink. Athens leads by 23 points.23
Culture & sights. Athens leads by 30 points.30
Nightlife. Athens leads by 66 points.66
Nature & outdoors. Ubud leads by 12 points.12
Day trips. Athens leads by 17 points.17
Good for families. Athens leads by 14 points.14
Getting around. Athens leads by 56 points.56
Shopping & style. Athens leads by 5 points.5
Affordability. Ubud leads by 26 points.26
Live music & performing arts. Athens leads by 9 points.9
Wellness & relaxation. Ubud leads by 54 points.54
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Athens and Ubud.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyAthensUbud
Daytime high34 °C29 °C
Night-time low24 °C24 °C
Rainfall in the month7 mm27 mm
Sunshine13 hours a day9 hours a day
Sea temperature25 °C27 °C
Daylight15 hours a day12 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Ubud
31
31
31
31
31
30
29
29
30
31
32
31
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Ubud
29
29
29
29
28
28
27
26
27
27
28
29
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Ubud
396
289
222
125
76
38
27
12
30
74
132
295
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Ubud
13
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
Ubud
7
6
7
8
9
8
9
9
9
9
8
6

Where the figures come from

Ubud's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai.

Ubud's station stands 209 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Ubud: 1991-2020 normals, Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai (29 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensUbud
SingaporeSIN, XSP
11 h 20 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
2 h 40 m
€139-147
DPS · 29 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
12 h 50 m
€633-726
DPS · 29 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€174-212
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
14 h 45 m
€655-1139
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 15 m
€202-223
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
15 h 0 m
€615-646
DPS · 29 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 30 m
€286-308
ATH · 20 km
9 h 30 m
€461-573
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
DohaDOH
4 h 10 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
9 h 55 m
€774-911
2 stops
DPS · 29 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 35 m
€73-144
ATH · 20 km
13 h 40 m
€782-910
3 stops
DPS · 29 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 40 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
6 h 50 m
€317-331
DPS · 29 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 45 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
5 h 55 m
€254-317
DPS · 29 km
New DelhiDEL
6 h 30 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
7 h 30 m
€449-537
DPS · 29 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 2026-10 to 2026-12, 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

MeasureAthensUbud
Official languageGreekIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112112
Elevation74 m210 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre173 non-stop destinationsDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAthensUbud
City population643,452-
People per km²16,499-
Museums within 10 km8814
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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. 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.