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Barcelona 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 Sagrada Família, Barcelona
Barcelona

Photo: Canaan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Rice terraces and palms at Tegallalang, Ubud
Ubud

Photo: Pinterpandai, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped

Your match

Barcelona
✓ Best match
72
match

Wins on getting around and nightlife 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.

BarcelonaUbud
Beaches & swimming. Barcelona leads by 35 points.35
Food & drink. Barcelona leads by 27 points.27
Culture & sights. Barcelona leads by 28 points.28
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 68 points.68
Nature & outdoors. Ubud leads by 4 points.4
Day trips. Barcelona leads by 12 points.12
Good for families. Barcelona leads by 32 points.32
Getting around. Barcelona leads by 70 points.70
Shopping & style. Barcelona leads by 25 points.25
Affordability. Ubud leads by 38 points.38
Live music & performing arts. Barcelona leads by 15 points.15
Wellness & relaxation. Ubud leads by 58 points.58
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Barcelona 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
JulyBarcelonaUbud
Daytime high28 °C29 °C
Night-time low21 °C24 °C
Rainfall in the month27 mm27 mm
Sunshine10 hours a day9 hours a day
Sea temperature24 °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
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
Ubud
31
31
31
31
31
30
29
29
30
31
32
31
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Ubud
29
29
29
29
28
28
27
26
27
27
28
29
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Ubud
396
289
222
125
76
38
27
12
30
74
132
295
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Ubud
13
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
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. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Ubud: 1991-2020 normals, Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai (29 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaUbud
SingaporeSIN, XSP
13 h 30 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
2 h 40 m
€139-147
DPS · 29 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€132-158
BCN · 13 km
15 h 0 m
€615-646
DPS · 29 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€62-99
BCN · 13 km
14 h 45 m
€655-1139
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€173-293
BCN · 13 km
12 h 50 m
€633-726
DPS · 29 km
DohaDOH
6 h 25 m
€282-445
2 stops
BCN · 13 km
9 h 55 m
€774-911
2 stops
DPS · 29 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 55 m
€459-799
2 stops
BCN · 13 km
6 h 50 m
€317-331
DPS · 29 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€369-388
BCN · 13 km
9 h 30 m
€461-573
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 50 m
€66-190
BCN · 13 km
13 h 40 m
€782-910
3 stops
DPS · 29 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
12 h 15 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
5 h 55 m
€254-317
DPS · 29 km
Hong KongHKG
12 h 30 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
4 h 45 m
€316-337
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

MeasureBarcelonaUbud
Official languageSpanishIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112112
Elevation9 m210 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre235 non-stop destinationsDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaUbud
City population1,731,649-
People per km²17,094-
Museums within 10 km9514
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.