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India Gate behind its flower beds, Delhi
DelhiIndia Gate behind its flower beds
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Delhi by shalender kumar, Pexels License; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Delhi 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 Delhi for

  • shopping
  • food and drink
  • getting around

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • beaches

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. Delhi 4, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Delhi 84, Yogyakarta 62: Delhi leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Delhi 85, Yogyakarta 68: Delhi leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Delhi 44, Yogyakarta 32: Delhi leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Delhi 20, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 52 points.
Day trips. Delhi 68, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Delhi 32, Yogyakarta 40: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Delhi 55, Yogyakarta 35: Delhi leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Delhi 78, Yogyakarta 52: Delhi leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Delhi 90, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Delhi 55, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Delhi 25, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Delhi and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Delhi
53match

Wins on shopping and food and drink with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
55match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Delhi in July

36 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
190 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. Delhi: 1991-2020 normals, New Delhi / Safdarjung (9.4 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureDelhiYogyakarta
Official languageHindi, EnglishIndonesian
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC+7
Emergency number108 or 112112
Elevation221 m113 m
Main airportIndira Gandhi International Airport (DEL)17 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureDelhiYogyakarta
City population26,495,000422,732
People per km²18,96213,007
Museums within 10 km2338
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

Where else could you go?

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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). 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.