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The Gateway of India under a blue sky, Mumbai
MumbaiThe Gateway of India under a blue sky
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Mumbai by Shubam Bhasin, Pexels License; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Mumbai 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 Mumbai for

  • food and drink
  • nightlife
  • shopping

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • day trips
  • wellness
  • prices

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. Mumbai 18, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Mumbai 82, Yogyakarta 62: Mumbai leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Mumbai 70, Yogyakarta 68: Mumbai leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Mumbai 52, Yogyakarta 32: Mumbai leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mumbai 55, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Mumbai 48, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Mumbai 35, Yogyakarta 40: Yogyakarta leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Mumbai 38, Yogyakarta 35: Mumbai leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Mumbai 66, Yogyakarta 52: Mumbai leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Mumbai 72, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mumbai 55, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mumbai 24, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mumbai and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Mumbai
51match

Wins on food and drink and nightlife with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on day trips 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.

Mumbai in July

31 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
860 mmrain in the month
2 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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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. Mumbai: 1991-2020 normals, Bombay / Santacruz (5.4 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureMumbaiYogyakarta
Official languageHindi, EnglishIndonesian
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC+7
Emergency number108 or 112112
Elevation14 m113 m
Main airportChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (BOM)2 km from centre122 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureMumbaiYogyakarta
City population15,414,288422,732
People per km²25,56313,007
Museums within 10 km138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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.