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The old town below the fortress, Salzburg
SalzburgThe old town below the fortress
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Salzburg by Leonhard Niederwimmer, Pexels License; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Salzburg 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 Salzburg for

  • getting around
  • families
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

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. Salzburg 35, Yogyakarta 22: Salzburg leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Salzburg 45, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Salzburg 72, Yogyakarta 68: Salzburg leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Salzburg 25, Yogyakarta 32: Yogyakarta leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Salzburg 86, Yogyakarta 72: Salzburg leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Salzburg 80, Yogyakarta 78: Salzburg leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Salzburg 65, Yogyakarta 40: Salzburg leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Salzburg 72, Yogyakarta 35: Salzburg leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Salzburg 48, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Salzburg 32, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Salzburg 80, Yogyakarta 58: Salzburg leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Salzburg 55, Yogyakarta 50: Salzburg leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Salzburg and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Salzburg
Best match
58match

Wins on getting around and families with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
55match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Salzburg in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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

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. Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureSalzburgYogyakarta
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation424 m113 m
Main airportSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre64 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSalzburgYogyakarta
City population155,021422,732
People per km²2,36013,007
Museums within 10 km3838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km33
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). 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. 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. 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.