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A cobbled street of painted houses in the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

San Miguel de Allende 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 Miguel de Allende for

  • wellness
  • getting around
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’s own page.

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

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 Miguel de Allende 4, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. San Miguel de Allende and Yogyakarta are level on 62.
Culture & sights. San Miguel de Allende 62, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. San Miguel de Allende 38, Yogyakarta 32: San Miguel de Allende leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. San Miguel de Allende 40, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 32 points.
Day trips. San Miguel de Allende 77, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 1 points.
Good for families. San Miguel de Allende 32, Yogyakarta 40: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
Getting around. San Miguel de Allende 48, Yogyakarta 35: San Miguel de Allende leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. San Miguel de Allende 55, Yogyakarta 52: San Miguel de Allende leads by 3 points.
Affordability. San Miguel de Allende 50, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Miguel de Allende 40, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Miguel de Allende 66, Yogyakarta 50: San Miguel de Allende leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Miguel de Allende and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

San Miguel de Allende
48match

Wins on wellness and getting around with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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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Where the figures come from

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

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 Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureSan Miguel de AllendeYogyakarta
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaIndonesian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+7
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,900 m113 m
Main airportGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSan Miguel de AllendeYogyakarta
City population69,811422,732
People per km²-13,007
Museums within 10 km238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
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.