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The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Krabi 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 Krabi for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • families

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

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. Krabi 87, Yogyakarta 22: Krabi leads by 65 points.
Food & drink. Krabi 50, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Krabi 20, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Krabi 33, Yogyakarta 32: Krabi leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Krabi 85, Yogyakarta 72: Krabi leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Krabi 40, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Krabi 55, Yogyakarta 40: Krabi leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Krabi 30, Yogyakarta 35: Yogyakarta leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Krabi 20, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Krabi 78, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Krabi 12, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Krabi 72, Yogyakarta 50: Krabi leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Krabi and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Krabi
49match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Krabi in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
212 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Yogyakarta in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
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

Krabi's temperatures are measured 67 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Krabi has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

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. Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureKrabiYogyakarta
Official languageThaiIndonesian
CurrencyBaht (THB)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation16 m113 m
Main airportKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureKrabiYogyakarta
City population30,499422,732
People per km²-13,007
Museums within 10 km038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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). 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.