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Rome or Ubud?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Colosseum, Rome
Rome

Photo: Tournasol7, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Rice terraces and palms at Tegallalang, Ubud
Ubud

Photo: Pinterpandai, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped

Your match

Rome
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on getting around and nightlife with your weighting.

Ubud
54
match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

RomeUbud
Beaches & swimming. Rome leads by 10 points.10
Food & drink. Rome leads by 27 points.27
Culture & sights. Rome leads by 41 points.41
Nightlife. Rome leads by 44 points.44
Nature & outdoors. Ubud leads by 18 points.18
Day trips. Rome leads by 24 points.24
Good for families. Rome leads by 6 points.6
Getting around. Rome leads by 50 points.50
Shopping & style. Rome leads by 22 points.22
Affordability. Ubud leads by 44 points.44
Live music & performing arts. Rome leads by 13 points.13
Wellness & relaxation. Ubud leads by 56 points.56
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Rome and Ubud.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyRomeUbud
Daytime high31 °C29 °C
Night-time low19 °C24 °C
Rainfall in the month21 mm27 mm
Sunshine11 hours a day9 hours a day
Sea temperature25 °C27 °C
Daylight15 hours a day12 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Ubud
31
31
31
31
31
30
29
29
30
31
32
31
Sea temperature, °C
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Ubud
29
29
29
29
28
28
27
26
27
27
28
29
Rainfall, mm
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Ubud
396
289
222
125
76
38
27
12
30
74
132
295
Daylight, hours per day
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Ubud
13
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4
Ubud
7
6
7
8
9
8
9
9
9
9
8
6

Where the figures come from

Rome's sunshine is measured 31 km from the centre, at Vigna Di Valle.

Ubud's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai.

Ubud's station stands 209 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre). Ubud: 1991-2020 normals, Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai (29 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRomeUbud
SingaporeSIN, XSP
12 h 30 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
2 h 40 m
€139-147
DPS · 29 km
PerthPER
16 h 25 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
3 h 40 m
€225-263
DPS · 29 km
SydneySYD, WSI
19 h 55 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
6 h 5 m
€384-453
DPS · 29 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
€136-291
FCO · 23 km
12 h 50 m
€633-726
DPS · 29 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 5 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
4 h 10 m
€230-254
DPS · 29 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€176-218
FCO · 23 km
15 h 0 m
€615-646
DPS · 29 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 15 m
€630-760
FCO · 23 km
6 h 50 m
€317-331
DPS · 29 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 50 m
€96-147
FCO · 23 km
14 h 45 m
€655-1139
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€270-340
FCO · 23 km
9 h 30 m
€461-573
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
DohaDOH
5 h 25 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
9 h 55 m
€774-911
2 stops
DPS · 29 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-10 to 2026-12, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureRomeUbud
Official languageItalianIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+8
Emergency number112112
Elevation21 m210 m
Main airportRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre242 non-stop destinationsDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureRomeUbud
City population2,748,109-
People per km²2,135-
Museums within 10 km17714
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km71
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.