New York or Ubud?
Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

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Your match
Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.
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What matters to you?
Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.
Scoreboard
Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.
What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: New York and Ubud.
When should you go?
Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.
| July | New York | Ubud |
|---|---|---|
| Daytime high | 30 °C | 29 °C |
| Night-time low | 22 °C | 24 °C |
| Rainfall in the month | 107 mm | 27 mm |
| Sunshine | No figure | 9 hours a day |
| Sea temperature | 22 °C | 27 °C |
| Daylight | 15 hours a day | 12 hours a day |
The whole year
Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.
Where the figures come from
Ubud's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai.
Ubud's station stands 209 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.
Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Ubud: 1991-2020 normals, Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai (29 km from centre).
Getting there
| Flying from | New York | Ubud |
|---|---|---|
| SingaporeSIN, XSP | 18 h 45 m no fares EWR · 14 km | 2 h 40 m €139-147 DPS · 29 km |
| SydneySYD, WSI | 19 h 30 m no fares JFK · 21 km | 6 h 5 m €384-453 DPS · 29 km |
| FrankfurtFRA, HHN | 7 h 55 m €439-457 1 stop JFK · 21 km | 14 h 45 m €655-1139 1 stop DPS · 29 km |
| TokyoHND, NRT | 13 h 30 m €989-1136 JFK · 21 km | 7 h 15 m €391-601 1 stop DPS · 29 km |
| SeoulICN, GMP | 13 h 40 m no fares EWR · 14 km | 6 h 50 m €317-331 DPS · 29 km |
| ShanghaiPVG, SHA | 14 h 40 m no fares JFK · 21 km | 5 h 55 m €254-317 DPS · 29 km |
| Hong KongHKG | 15 h 55 m no fares JFK · 21 km | 4 h 45 m €316-337 DPS · 29 km |
| New DelhiDEL | 14 h 30 m no fares EWR · 14 km | 7 h 30 m €449-537 DPS · 29 km |
| GuangzhouCAN | 15 h 50 m no fares JFK · 21 km | 4 h 55 m €257-289 DPS · 29 km |
| Abu DhabiAUH | 13 h 40 m no fares JFK · 21 km | 9 h 30 m €560-729 DPS · 29 km |
The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-10 to 2026-12, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.
Before you go
| Measure | New York | Ubud |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | - | Indonesian |
| Currency | US Dollar (USD) | Rupiah (IDR) |
| Sockets | AB120 V, 60 Hz | CF50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Left |
| Time zone | UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer | UTC+8 |
| Emergency number | 911 | 112 |
| Elevation | 25 m | 210 m |
| Main airport | John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre189 non-stop destinations | Denpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre63 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 13 days | - |
By the numbers
| Measure | New York | Ubud |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 8,804,190 | - |
| People per km² | 7,256 | - |
| Museums within 10 km | 157 | 14 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 2 | 1 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | 3 months | 12 months |
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