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The Fortaleza San Felipe, Puerto Plata
Puerto PlataThe Fortaleza San Felipe
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Puerto Plata by CareAhLine, CC0; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Puerto Plata 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 Puerto Plata for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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. Puerto Plata 80, Yogyakarta 22: Puerto Plata leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Puerto Plata 40, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Puerto Plata 35, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Puerto Plata 38, Yogyakarta 32: Puerto Plata leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Puerto Plata 68, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Puerto Plata 48, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Puerto Plata 57, Yogyakarta 40: Puerto Plata leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Puerto Plata 30, Yogyakarta 35: Yogyakarta leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Puerto Plata 30, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Puerto Plata 64, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Puerto Plata 18, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Puerto Plata 35, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Puerto Plata and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Puerto Plata
45match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Puerto Plata in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Yogyakarta in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
26 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Puerto PlataYogyakarta

Where the figures come from

Puerto Plata 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.

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. Puerto Plata: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Puerto Plata (15.3 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasurePuerto PlataYogyakarta
Official languageSpanishIndonesian
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+7
Emergency number911112
Elevation34 m113 m
Main airportGregorio Luperon International Airport (POP)13 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasurePuerto PlataYogyakarta
City population-422,732
People per km²-13,007
Museums within 10 km138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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). 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.