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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.

Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan, New York
New York

Photo: Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped

Rice terraces and palms at Tegallalang, Ubud
Ubud

Photo: Pinterpandai, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
71
match

Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.

Ubud
54
match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

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.

New YorkUbud
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 10 points.10
Food & drink. New York leads by 37 points.37
Culture & sights. New York leads by 31 points.31
Nightlife. New York leads by 83 points.83
Nature & outdoors. Ubud leads by 21 points.21
Day trips. New York and Ubud are level on 68.
Good for families. New York leads by 26 points.26
Getting around. New York leads by 72 points.72
Shopping & style. New York leads by 47 points.47
Affordability. Ubud leads by 70 points.70
Live music & performing arts. New York leads by 44 points.44
Wellness & relaxation. Ubud leads by 54 points.54
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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.

Climate figures for July
JulyNew YorkUbud
Daytime high30 °C29 °C
Night-time low22 °C24 °C
Rainfall in the month107 mm27 mm
SunshineNo figure9 hours a day
Sea temperature22 °C27 °C
Daylight15 hours a day12 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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Ubud
31
31
31
31
31
30
29
29
30
31
32
31
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Ubud
29
29
29
29
28
28
27
26
27
27
28
29
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Ubud
396
289
222
125
76
38
27
12
30
74
132
295
Daylight, hours per day
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Ubud
13
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
New York
No sunshine record
Ubud
7
6
7
8
9
8
9
9
9
9
8
6

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).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkUbud
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

MeasureNew YorkUbud
Official language-Indonesian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number911112
Elevation25 m210 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre189 non-stop destinationsDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkUbud
City population8,804,190-
People per km²7,256-
Museums within 10 km15714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.