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A bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay, Montego Bay
Montego BayA bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Montego Bay 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 Montego Bay for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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. Montego Bay 84, Yogyakarta 22: Montego Bay leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Montego Bay 50, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Montego Bay 28, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Montego Bay 42, Yogyakarta 32: Montego Bay leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montego Bay 65, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Montego Bay 50, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Montego Bay 48, Yogyakarta 40: Montego Bay leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Montego Bay 20, Yogyakarta 35: Yogyakarta leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Montego Bay 25, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Montego Bay 38, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 54 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montego Bay 32, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montego Bay 45, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montego Bay and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Montego Bay
44match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
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.

Montego Bay in July

34 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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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Montego BayYogyakarta

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. Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureMontego BayYogyakarta
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisIndonesian
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110112
Elevation19 m113 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days-

By the numbers

MeasureMontego BayYogyakarta
City population123,994422,732
People per km²-13,007
Museums within 10 km038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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). 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.