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Main Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower, Laguna Beach
Laguna BeachMain Beach with its palms and lifeguard tower
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Laguna Beach by Mark Stebnicki, Pexels License; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Laguna Beach 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 Laguna Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Laguna Beach’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. Laguna Beach 72, Yogyakarta 22: Laguna Beach leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Laguna Beach 40, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Laguna Beach 27, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Laguna Beach 18, Yogyakarta 32: Yogyakarta leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Laguna Beach 73, Yogyakarta 72: Laguna Beach leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Laguna Beach 72, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Laguna Beach 68, Yogyakarta 40: Laguna Beach leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Laguna Beach 33, Yogyakarta 35: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Laguna Beach 46, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Laguna Beach 12, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 80 points.
Live music & performing arts. Laguna Beach 40, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Laguna Beach 47, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Laguna Beach and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Laguna Beach
46match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
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.

Laguna Beach in July

28 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
14 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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Laguna BeachYogyakarta

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. Laguna Beach: 1981-2010 normals, Irvine (15.5 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureLaguna BeachYogyakarta
Official language-Indonesian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911112
Elevation6 m113 m
Main airportJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)18 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureLaguna BeachYogyakarta
City population23,032422,732
People per km²90713,007
Museums within 10 km238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.