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Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Melbourne 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 Melbourne for

  • nightlife
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • 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. Melbourne 50, Yogyakarta 22: Melbourne leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Melbourne 75, Yogyakarta 62: Melbourne leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Melbourne 57, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Melbourne 75, Yogyakarta 32: Melbourne leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Melbourne 70, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Melbourne 62, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Melbourne 73, Yogyakarta 40: Melbourne leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Melbourne 76, Yogyakarta 35: Melbourne leads by 41 points.
Shopping & style. Melbourne 70, Yogyakarta 52: Melbourne leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Melbourne 31, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 61 points.
Live music & performing arts. Melbourne 72, Yogyakarta 58: Melbourne leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Melbourne 54, Yogyakarta 50: Melbourne leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Melbourne and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Melbourne
Best match
64match

Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
55match

Wins on prices 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.

Melbourne in July

14 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 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. Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureMelbourneYogyakarta
Official languageEnglishIndonesian
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number000112
Elevation31 m113 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureMelbourneYogyakarta
City population5,350,705422,732
People per km²53513,007
Museums within 10 km4338
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

Where else could you go?

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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.