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Pulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon, Bath
BathPulteney Bridge and the weir on the Avon
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Bath by Lucas Carlini, Pexels License; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bath 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 Bath for

  • getting around
  • wellness
  • families

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Bath 10, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Bath 44, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Bath and Yogyakarta are level on 68.
Nightlife. Bath 30, Yogyakarta 32: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bath 58, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Bath 80, Yogyakarta 78: Bath leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Bath 50, Yogyakarta 40: Bath leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Bath 72, Yogyakarta 35: Bath leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Bath 54, Yogyakarta 52: Bath leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Bath 27, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 65 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bath 44, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bath 78, Yogyakarta 50: Bath leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bath and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Bath
51match

Wins on getting around and wellness with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bath in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 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

Bath's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

Bath has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

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. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBathYogyakarta
Official languageEnglishIndonesian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m113 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre117 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBathYogyakarta
City population94,092422,732
People per km²3,24513,007
Museums within 10 km1738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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). 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. 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.