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The Winchester Mystery House, San Jose
San JoseThe Winchester Mystery House
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: San Jose by Roxanna Salceda, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

San Jose 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 Jose for

  • families
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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 Jose 30, Yogyakarta 22: San Jose leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. San Jose 56, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. San Jose 36, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. San Jose 33, Yogyakarta 32: San Jose leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. San Jose and Yogyakarta are level on 72.
Day trips. San Jose and Yogyakarta are level on 78.
Good for families. San Jose 65, Yogyakarta 40: San Jose leads by 25 points.
Getting around. San Jose 30, Yogyakarta 35: Yogyakarta leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. San Jose 48, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 4 points.
Affordability. San Jose 20, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 72 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Jose 38, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Jose 30, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Jose and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

San Jose
45match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

San Jose in July

27 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
14 °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 Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureSan JoseYogyakarta
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
Elevation25 m113 m
Main airportMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre38 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSan JoseYogyakarta
City population1,013,240422,732
People per km²2,16713,007
Museums within 10 km1938
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.