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The Dzhumaya Mosque, Plovdiv
PlovdivThe Dzhumaya Mosque
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Plovdiv by Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Plovdiv 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 Plovdiv for

  • getting around
  • nightlife

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • shopping
  • live music and the arts
  • beaches

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. Plovdiv 7, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Plovdiv 50, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Plovdiv 66, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Plovdiv 42, Yogyakarta 32: Plovdiv leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Plovdiv 68, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Plovdiv 70, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Plovdiv and Yogyakarta are level on 40.
Getting around. Plovdiv 65, Yogyakarta 35: Plovdiv leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Plovdiv 33, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Plovdiv 78, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Plovdiv 42, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Plovdiv 44, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Plovdiv and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Plovdiv
50match

Wins on getting around and nightlife with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Plovdiv in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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

Plovdiv 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.

Plovdiv's sunshine is measured 75 km from the centre, at Kurdjali.

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. Plovdiv: 1997-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Plovdiv (1.2 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasurePlovdivYogyakarta
Official languageBulgarianIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation172 m113 m
Main airportPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days-

By the numbers

MeasurePlovdivYogyakarta
City population333,994422,732
People per km²3,27413,007
Museums within 10 km1838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.