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The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Beijing 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 Beijing for

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • 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. Beijing 6, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Beijing 81, Yogyakarta 62: Beijing leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Beijing 93, Yogyakarta 68: Beijing leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Beijing 58, Yogyakarta 32: Beijing leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beijing 60, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Beijing 85, Yogyakarta 78: Beijing leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Beijing 64, Yogyakarta 40: Beijing leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Beijing 69, Yogyakarta 35: Beijing leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Beijing 72, Yogyakarta 52: Beijing leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Beijing 68, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beijing 68, Yogyakarta 58: Beijing leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beijing 55, Yogyakarta 50: Beijing leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beijing and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Beijing
Best match
65match

Wins on getting around and nightlife with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
55match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Beijing in July

32 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
163 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBeijingYogyakarta
Official languagePutonghuaIndonesian
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation43 m113 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingYogyakarta
City population21,893,095422,732
People per km²1,33413,007
Museums within 10 km8338
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km63
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.