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The Assembly Hall on Temple Square, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake CityThe Assembly Hall on Temple Square
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Salt Lake City by hakkun, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City for

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Salt Lake City’s own page.

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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. Salt Lake City 12, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Salt Lake City 40, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Salt Lake City 42, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Salt Lake City 30, Yogyakarta 32: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Salt Lake City 90, Yogyakarta 72: Salt Lake City leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Salt Lake City 34, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Salt Lake City 72, Yogyakarta 40: Salt Lake City leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Salt Lake City 42, Yogyakarta 35: Salt Lake City leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Salt Lake City 36, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Salt Lake City 40, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Salt Lake City 55, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Salt Lake City 38, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Salt Lake City and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Salt Lake City
44match

Wins on families and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Salt Lake City in July

34 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No seasea
15 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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Salt Lake CityYogyakarta

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. Salt Lake City: 1991-2020 normals, Salt Lake City International Airport (7.9 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureSalt Lake CityYogyakarta
Official language-Indonesian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,288 m113 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)9 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSalt Lake CityYogyakarta
City population199,723422,732
People per km²69013,007
Museums within 10 km1238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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.