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The junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
Hong KongThe junk Duk Ling in Victoria Harbour
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Hong Kong by LN9267, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong for

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • shopping

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • 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. Hong Kong 50, Yogyakarta 22: Hong Kong leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Hong Kong 90, Yogyakarta 62: Hong Kong leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Hong Kong 60, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Hong Kong 68, Yogyakarta 32: Hong Kong leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hong Kong 80, Yogyakarta 72: Hong Kong leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Hong Kong 68, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Hong Kong 75, Yogyakarta 40: Hong Kong leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Hong Kong 97, Yogyakarta 35: Hong Kong leads by 62 points.
Shopping & style. Hong Kong 88, Yogyakarta 52: Hong Kong leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Hong Kong 27, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 65 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hong Kong 55, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hong Kong 42, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hong Kong and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Hong Kong
Best match
67match

Wins on getting around and nightlife with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
55match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Hong Kong in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
381 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureHong KongYogyakarta
Official languageStandard ChineseIndonesian
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+7
Emergency number999112
Elevation7 m113 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre148 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days-

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongYogyakarta
City population7,413,070422,732
People per km²-13,007
Museums within 10 km3938
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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.