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The Plaza de los Naranjos and its fountain in the old town, Marbella
MarbellaThe Plaza de los Naranjos and its fountain in the old town
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Marbella by Décio Franchini, Pexels License; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Marbella 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 Marbella for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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. Marbella 76, Yogyakarta 22: Marbella leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Marbella 60, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Marbella 32, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Marbella 64, Yogyakarta 32: Marbella leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Marbella 70, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Marbella 77, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Marbella 70, Yogyakarta 40: Marbella leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Marbella 38, Yogyakarta 35: Marbella leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Marbella 58, Yogyakarta 52: Marbella leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Marbella 30, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 62 points.
Live music & performing arts. Marbella 30, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Marbella 52, Yogyakarta 50: Marbella leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Marbella and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Marbella
55match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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.

Marbella in July

31 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
14 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

Marbella's temperatures are measured 40 km from the centre, at Malaga / Aeropuerto.

Marbella 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. Marbella: 1991-2020 normals, Malaga / Aeropuerto (39.7 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureMarbellaYogyakarta
Official languageSpanishIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation22 m113 m
Main airportMálaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP)39 km from centre166 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureMarbellaYogyakarta
City population159,786422,732
People per km²1,39813,007
Museums within 10 km638
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.