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The CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei, Bucharest
BucharestThe CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Bucharest by Jorge Láscar, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bucharest 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 Bucharest for

  • nightlife
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • prices

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. Bucharest 8, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Bucharest 55, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Bucharest 58, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Bucharest 70, Yogyakarta 32: Bucharest leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bucharest 45, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Bucharest 52, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Bucharest 52, Yogyakarta 40: Bucharest leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Bucharest 52, Yogyakarta 35: Bucharest leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Bucharest 45, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Bucharest 70, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bucharest 60, Yogyakarta 58: Bucharest leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bucharest 47, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bucharest and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Bucharest
51match

Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bucharest in July

30 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
68 mmrain in the month
10 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. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBucharestYogyakarta
Official languageRomanianIndonesian
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m113 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre121 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestYogyakarta
City population1,716,961422,732
People per km²7,59713,007
Museums within 10 km4138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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). 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.