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A cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan, San Juan
San JuanA cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: San Juan by Mohan Nannapaneni, Pexels License; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

San Juan 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 Juan for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • wellness

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 Juan 84, Yogyakarta 22: San Juan leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. San Juan 66, Yogyakarta 62: San Juan leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. San Juan 64, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. San Juan 70, Yogyakarta 32: San Juan leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. San Juan 74, Yogyakarta 72: San Juan leads by 2 points.
Day trips. San Juan 52, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 26 points.
Good for families. San Juan 58, Yogyakarta 40: San Juan leads by 18 points.
Getting around. San Juan 38, Yogyakarta 35: San Juan leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. San Juan 50, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
Affordability. San Juan 38, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 54 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Juan 55, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Juan 40, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Juan and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

San Juan
57match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
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.

San Juan in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 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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San JuanYogyakarta

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 Juan: 1991-2020 normals, San Juan / Int., Puerto Rico (12.8 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureSan JuanYogyakarta
Official languageSpanish, EnglishIndonesian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+7
Emergency number911112
Elevation3 m113 m
Main airportLuis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSan JuanYogyakarta
City population342,259422,732
People per km²2,84713,007
Museums within 10 km1838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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.