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The Sagrada Família, Barcelona
BarcelonaThe Sagrada Família
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Barcelona by Canaan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Barcelona 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 Barcelona for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • getting around

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • wellness

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. Barcelona 75, Yogyakarta 22: Barcelona leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Barcelona 82, Yogyakarta 62: Barcelona leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Barcelona 86, Yogyakarta 68: Barcelona leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Barcelona 82, Yogyakarta 32: Barcelona leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Barcelona and Yogyakarta are level on 72.
Day trips. Barcelona 80, Yogyakarta 78: Barcelona leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Barcelona 76, Yogyakarta 40: Barcelona leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Barcelona 80, Yogyakarta 35: Barcelona leads by 45 points.
Shopping & style. Barcelona 75, Yogyakarta 52: Barcelona leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Barcelona 44, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Barcelona 70, Yogyakarta 58: Barcelona leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Barcelona 38, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Barcelona and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Barcelona
Best match
72match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
55match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Barcelona in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
24 °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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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. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBarcelonaYogyakarta
Official languageSpanishIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation9 m113 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre235 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaYogyakarta
City population1,731,649422,732
People per km²17,09413,007
Museums within 10 km9538
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
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. 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.