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Banff Avenue below Cascade Mountain, Banff
BanffBanff Avenue below Cascade Mountain
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Banff by bryan pascual, Pexels License; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Banff 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 Banff for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • getting around

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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. Banff 12, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Banff 32, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Banff 22, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Banff 30, Yogyakarta 32: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Banff 98, Yogyakarta 72: Banff leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Banff 25, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 53 points.
Good for families. Banff 60, Yogyakarta 40: Banff leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Banff 55, Yogyakarta 35: Banff leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Banff 28, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Banff 18, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 74 points.
Live music & performing arts. Banff 32, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Banff 54, Yogyakarta 50: Banff leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Banff and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Banff
39match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Banff in July

23 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Yogyakarta in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
26 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BanffYogyakarta

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. Banff: 1991-2020 normals, Banff (2 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBanffYogyakarta
Official languageFrench, EnglishIndonesian
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,400 m113 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)109 km from centre103 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBanffYogyakarta
City population8,305422,732
People per km²1,73013,007
Museums within 10 km438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.