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Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Porto 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 Porto for

  • nightlife
  • getting around
  • beaches

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Porto 40, Yogyakarta 22: Porto leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Porto 70, Yogyakarta 62: Porto leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Porto and Yogyakarta are level on 68.
Nightlife. Porto 65, Yogyakarta 32: Porto leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Porto 64, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Porto 79, Yogyakarta 78: Porto leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Porto 52, Yogyakarta 40: Porto leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Porto 66, Yogyakarta 35: Porto leads by 31 points.
Shopping & style. Porto and Yogyakarta are level on 52.
Affordability. Porto 62, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Porto 52, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Porto 34, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Porto and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Porto
Best match
59match

Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
55match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
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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PortoYogyakarta

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. Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasurePortoYogyakarta
Official languagePortugueseIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation104 m113 m
Main airportFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre134 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasurePortoYogyakarta
City population273,476422,732
People per km²6,60613,007
Museums within 10 km4238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.