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Botero sculptures on Plaza Botero, Medellin
MedellinBotero sculptures on Plaza Botero
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Medellin by Steffen Schmitz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Medellin 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 Medellin for

  • nightlife
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • wellness

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. Medellin 5, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Medellin 58, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Medellin 42, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Medellin 76, Yogyakarta 32: Medellin leads by 44 points.
Nature & outdoors. Medellin 66, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Medellin 58, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Medellin 50, Yogyakarta 40: Medellin leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Medellin 55, Yogyakarta 35: Medellin leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Medellin 45, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Medellin 80, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Medellin 42, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Medellin 30, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Medellin and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Medellin
51match

Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Medellin in July

29 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
133 mmrain in the month
No seasea
12 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

Medellin 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. Medellin: 1958-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Medellin / Olaya Herrera (5.2 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureMedellinYogyakarta
Official languageSpanishIndonesian
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+7
Emergency number123112
Elevation1,405 m113 m
Main airportJose Maria Córdova International Airport (MDE)19 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days-

By the numbers

MeasureMedellinYogyakarta
City population2,529,403422,732
People per km²6,64413,007
Museums within 10 km1438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.