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The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Durban 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 Durban for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • 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. Durban 80, Yogyakarta 22: Durban leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Durban 60, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Durban 38, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Durban 40, Yogyakarta 32: Durban leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Durban 68, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Durban 38, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Durban 60, Yogyakarta 40: Durban leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Durban 20, Yogyakarta 35: Yogyakarta leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Durban 42, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Durban 72, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Durban 40, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Durban 30, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Durban and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Durban
49match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Durban in July

23 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
10 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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DurbanYogyakarta

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. Durban: 1991-2020 normals, Durban, Durban International Airport (14.1 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureDurbanYogyakarta
Official languageEnglish, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Venda, Northern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Southern Ndebele, South African Sign LanguageIndonesian
CurrencyRand (ZAR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCMN230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+2UTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation22 m113 m
Main airportKing Shaka International Airport (DUR)29 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureDurbanYogyakarta
City population595,061422,732
People per km²2,63413,007
Museums within 10 km138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.