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The Atomium, Brussels
BrusselsThe Atomium
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

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

Brussels 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 Brussels for

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • 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. Brussels 18, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Brussels 72, Yogyakarta 62: Brussels leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Brussels 74, Yogyakarta 68: Brussels leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Brussels 60, Yogyakarta 32: Brussels leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Brussels 45, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Brussels 89, Yogyakarta 78: Brussels leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Brussels 60, Yogyakarta 40: Brussels leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Brussels 72, Yogyakarta 35: Brussels leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Brussels 62, Yogyakarta 52: Brussels leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Brussels 40, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Brussels 68, Yogyakarta 58: Brussels leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Brussels 33, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Brussels and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Brussels
Best match
58match

Wins on getting around and nightlife with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
55match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Brussels in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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

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. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBrusselsYogyakarta
Official languageFrench, German, DutchIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m113 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBrusselsYogyakarta
City population195,546422,732
People per km²5,90813,007
Museums within 10 km10638
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km103
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.