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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Montevideo 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 Montevideo for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • nightlife

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • 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. Montevideo 55, Yogyakarta 22: Montevideo leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Yogyakarta 32: Montevideo leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Yogyakarta 40: Montevideo leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Yogyakarta 35: Montevideo leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Montevideo
49match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °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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MontevideoYogyakarta

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. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoYogyakarta
Official language-Indonesian
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+7
Emergency number911112
Elevation41 m113 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days-

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoYogyakarta
City population1,302,954422,732
People per km²1,78513,007
Museums within 10 km3638
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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.