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The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
San FranciscoThe Golden Gate Bridge
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: San Francisco by Elijah Cobb, Pexels License; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

San Francisco 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 San Francisco for

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • 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. San Francisco 25, Yogyakarta 22: San Francisco leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. San Francisco 82, Yogyakarta 62: San Francisco leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. San Francisco and Yogyakarta are level on 68.
Nightlife. San Francisco 58, Yogyakarta 32: San Francisco leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. San Francisco 80, Yogyakarta 72: San Francisco leads by 8 points.
Day trips. San Francisco 72, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 6 points.
Good for families. San Francisco 66, Yogyakarta 40: San Francisco leads by 26 points.
Getting around. San Francisco 70, Yogyakarta 35: San Francisco leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. San Francisco 58, Yogyakarta 52: San Francisco leads by 6 points.
Affordability. San Francisco 14, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 78 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Francisco 76, Yogyakarta 58: San Francisco leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Francisco 42, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Francisco and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

San Francisco
Best match
59match

Wins on getting around and nightlife with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
55match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

San Francisco in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
13 °Csea
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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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. San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureSan FranciscoYogyakarta
Official language-Indonesian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911112
Elevation16 m113 m
Main airportSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSan FranciscoYogyakarta
City population873,965422,732
People per km²1,45513,007
Museums within 10 km5138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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). 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. 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.