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The Sanctuary of Truth by the sea, Pattaya
PattayaThe Sanctuary of Truth by the sea
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Pattaya by Matrix, Pexels License; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Pattaya 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 Pattaya for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

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. Pattaya 66, Yogyakarta 22: Pattaya leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Pattaya 58, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Pattaya 30, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Pattaya 76, Yogyakarta 32: Pattaya leads by 44 points.
Nature & outdoors. Pattaya 40, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Pattaya 52, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Pattaya 55, Yogyakarta 40: Pattaya leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Pattaya 36, Yogyakarta 35: Pattaya leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Pattaya 42, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Pattaya 84, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Pattaya 30, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Pattaya 58, Yogyakarta 50: Pattaya leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Pattaya and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Pattaya
52match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights 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.

Pattaya in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
102 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
30 °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

Pattaya's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Sattahip.

Pattaya has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Pattaya's sunshine is measured 86 km from the centre, at Bangna Agromet / Ban Khlong Samrong.

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. Pattaya: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1961-1990, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sattahip (31.2 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasurePattayaYogyakarta
Official languageThaiIndonesian
CurrencyBaht (THB)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation35 m113 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)83 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasurePattayaYogyakarta
City population119,532422,732
People per km²-13,007
Museums within 10 km038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.