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The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

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

Chengdu 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 Chengdu for

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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. Chengdu 5, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Chengdu 86, Yogyakarta 62: Chengdu leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Chengdu 60, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Chengdu 68, Yogyakarta 32: Chengdu leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chengdu 68, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Chengdu 80, Yogyakarta 78: Chengdu leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Chengdu 65, Yogyakarta 40: Chengdu leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Chengdu 74, Yogyakarta 35: Chengdu leads by 39 points.
Shopping & style. Chengdu 64, Yogyakarta 52: Chengdu leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Chengdu 80, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chengdu 50, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chengdu 58, Yogyakarta 50: Chengdu leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chengdu and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Chengdu
Best match
63match

Wins on getting around and nightlife with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
55match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Chengdu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
177 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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. Chengdu: 1991-2020 normals, Chengdu (4.5 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureChengduYogyakarta
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
Elevation500 m113 m
Main airportChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days-

By the numbers

MeasureChengduYogyakarta
City population20,937,757422,732
People per km²1,45613,007
Museums within 10 km1038
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). 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.