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The terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía, Santiago
SantiagoThe terrace on Cerro Santa Lucía
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Santiago by Rjcastillo, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Santiago 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 Santiago for

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • 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. Santiago 12, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Santiago 60, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Santiago 52, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Santiago 60, Yogyakarta 32: Santiago leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Santiago 83, Yogyakarta 72: Santiago leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Santiago 70, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Santiago 57, Yogyakarta 40: Santiago leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Santiago 68, Yogyakarta 35: Santiago leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Santiago and Yogyakarta are level on 52.
Affordability. Santiago 58, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Santiago 55, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Santiago 37, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Santiago and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Santiago
55match

Wins on getting around and nightlife with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
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.

Santiago in July

14 °Cdaytime high
4 °Cnight-time low
52 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
10 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. Santiago: 1991-2020 normals, Santiago Q. Normal (3.1 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureSantiagoYogyakarta
Official languageSpanishIndonesian
CurrencyChilean Peso (CLP)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCL220 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132112
Elevation575 m113 m
Main airportComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)14 km from centre67 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSantiagoYogyakarta
City population6,257,516422,732
People per km²7,46813,007
Museums within 10 km5438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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). 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.