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The cathedral and Great St. Martin on the Rhine, Cologne
CologneThe cathedral and Great St. Martin on the Rhine
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Cologne by Jörg Braukmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cologne 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 Cologne for

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink

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. Cologne 14, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Cologne 52, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Cologne 67, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Cologne 66, Yogyakarta 32: Cologne leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cologne 56, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Cologne 80, Yogyakarta 78: Cologne leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Cologne 70, Yogyakarta 40: Cologne leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Cologne 74, Yogyakarta 35: Cologne leads by 39 points.
Shopping & style. Cologne 57, Yogyakarta 52: Cologne leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Cologne 46, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cologne 68, Yogyakarta 58: Cologne leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cologne and Yogyakarta are level on 50.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cologne and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Cologne
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.

Cologne in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
81 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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CologneYogyakarta

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. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureCologneYogyakarta
Official languageGermanIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation59 m113 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre115 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureCologneYogyakarta
City population1,025,523422,732
People per km²2,53213,007
Museums within 10 km4038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
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.