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The church of San Francisco under a blue sky, Quito
QuitoThe church of San Francisco under a blue sky
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Quito by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Quito 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 Quito for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • day trips
  • 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. Quito 5, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Quito 54, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Quito 77, Yogyakarta 68: Quito leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Quito 40, Yogyakarta 32: Quito leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Quito 86, Yogyakarta 72: Quito leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Quito 55, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Quito 32, Yogyakarta 40: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Quito 45, Yogyakarta 35: Quito leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Quito 40, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Quito 78, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Quito 38, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Quito 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: Quito and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Quito
50match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on day trips 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.

Quito in July

18 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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

Quito's station stands 208 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Quito: 1961-1990 normals, Izobamba-Santa Catalina (16.8 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureQuitoYogyakarta
Official languageSpanish, Shuar, Northern QuichuaIndonesian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+7
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,850 m113 m
Main airportMariscal Sucre International Airport (UIO)20 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureQuitoYogyakarta
City population1,763,275422,732
People per km²4,73513,007
Museums within 10 km1638
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.