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Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Oaxaca 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 Oaxaca for

  • food and drink
  • getting around
  • shopping

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • live music and the arts
  • beaches
  • 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. Oaxaca 5, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Oaxaca 84, Yogyakarta 62: Oaxaca leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Oaxaca 74, Yogyakarta 68: Oaxaca leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Oaxaca 40, Yogyakarta 32: Oaxaca leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Oaxaca 62, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Oaxaca 65, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Oaxaca and Yogyakarta are level on 40.
Getting around. Oaxaca 55, Yogyakarta 35: Oaxaca leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Oaxaca 62, Yogyakarta 52: Oaxaca leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Oaxaca 77, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Oaxaca 38, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Oaxaca and Yogyakarta are level on 50.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Oaxaca and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Oaxaca
54match

Wins on food and drink and getting around with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
55match

Wins on live music and the arts and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Oaxaca in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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. Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureOaxacaYogyakarta
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaIndonesian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+7
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,555 m113 m
Main airportXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days-

By the numbers

MeasureOaxacaYogyakarta
City population258,913422,732
People per km²3,02813,007
Museums within 10 km1038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.