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La Major cathedral from the harbour, Marseille
MarseilleLa Major cathedral from the harbour
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Marseille by Charlotte Noblet, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Marseille 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 Marseille for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Marseille’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. Marseille 72, Yogyakarta 22: Marseille leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Marseille 67, Yogyakarta 62: Marseille leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Marseille 63, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Marseille 57, Yogyakarta 32: Marseille leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Marseille 83, Yogyakarta 72: Marseille leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Marseille 86, Yogyakarta 78: Marseille leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Marseille 50, Yogyakarta 40: Marseille leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Marseille 57, Yogyakarta 35: Marseille leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Marseille 47, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Marseille 45, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Marseille 56, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Marseille 37, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Marseille and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Marseille
Best match
60match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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.

Marseille in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
11 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 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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MarseilleYogyakarta

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. Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureMarseilleYogyakarta
Official languageFrenchIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m113 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureMarseilleYogyakarta
City population886,040422,732
People per km²3,68313,007
Museums within 10 km2738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.