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The railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield, Manchester
ManchesterThe railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Manchester by IIya Kuzhekin, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Manchester 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 Manchester for

  • nightlife
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • 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. Manchester 9, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Manchester 51, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Manchester 50, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Manchester 72, Yogyakarta 32: Manchester leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manchester 64, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Manchester 77, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Manchester 58, Yogyakarta 40: Manchester leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Manchester 68, Yogyakarta 35: Manchester leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Manchester 62, Yogyakarta 52: Manchester leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Manchester 42, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manchester 74, Yogyakarta 58: Manchester leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manchester 15, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 35 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manchester and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Manchester
54match

Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
55match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Manchester in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 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. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureManchesterYogyakarta
Official languageEnglishIndonesian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation38 m113 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre211 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days-

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterYogyakarta
City population547,627422,732
People per km²4,73713,007
Museums within 10 km2838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.