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The Jet d'Eau and a lake boat, Geneva
GenevaThe Jet d'Eau and a lake boat
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

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

Geneva 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 Geneva for

  • getting around
  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • 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. Geneva 45, Yogyakarta 22: Geneva leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Geneva 55, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Geneva 58, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Geneva 38, Yogyakarta 32: Geneva leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Geneva 82, Yogyakarta 72: Geneva leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Geneva 80, Yogyakarta 78: Geneva leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Geneva 57, Yogyakarta 40: Geneva leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Geneva 86, Yogyakarta 35: Geneva leads by 51 points.
Shopping & style. Geneva 68, Yogyakarta 52: Geneva leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Geneva 5, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 87 points.
Live music & performing arts. Geneva 60, Yogyakarta 58: Geneva leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Geneva 55, Yogyakarta 50: Geneva leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Geneva 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

Geneva
57match

Wins on getting around and beaches with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
55match

Wins on prices 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.

Geneva in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
77 mmrain in the month
9 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. Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureGenevaYogyakarta
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshIndonesian
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation403 m113 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days-

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaYogyakarta
City population211,152422,732
People per km²13,28013,007
Museums within 10 km3438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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.