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Palms on a white beach at Cap Cana, Punta Cana
Punta CanaPalms on a white beach at Cap Cana
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Punta Cana by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, CC0; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Punta Cana 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 Punta Cana for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • 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. Punta Cana 94, Yogyakarta 22: Punta Cana leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Punta Cana 30, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Punta Cana 8, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Punta Cana 40, Yogyakarta 32: Punta Cana leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Punta Cana 52, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Punta Cana 35, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Punta Cana 68, Yogyakarta 40: Punta Cana leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Punta Cana 15, Yogyakarta 35: Yogyakarta leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Punta Cana 30, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Punta Cana 44, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Punta Cana 15, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Punta Cana 52, Yogyakarta 50: Punta Cana leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Punta Cana and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Punta Cana
40match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Punta Cana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
96 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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Punta CanaYogyakarta

Where the figures come from

Punta Cana 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. Punta Cana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (0.9 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasurePunta CanaYogyakarta
Official languageSpanishIndonesian
CurrencyDominican Peso (DOP)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+7
Emergency number911112
Elevation28 m113 m
Main airportPunta Cana International Airport (PUJ)1 km from centre93 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasurePunta CanaYogyakarta
City population138,919422,732
People per km²29213,007
Museums within 10 km038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 months

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Sources

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.