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Camelback Mountain above the city, Scottsdale
ScottsdaleCamelback Mountain above the city
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Scottsdale by Visitor7, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Scottsdale 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 Scottsdale for

  • wellness
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • 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. Scottsdale 8, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Scottsdale 46, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Scottsdale 38, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Scottsdale 52, Yogyakarta 32: Scottsdale leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Scottsdale 68, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Scottsdale 50, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Scottsdale 60, Yogyakarta 40: Scottsdale leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Scottsdale 20, Yogyakarta 35: Yogyakarta leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Scottsdale 60, Yogyakarta 52: Scottsdale leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Scottsdale 32, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Scottsdale 40, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Scottsdale 72, Yogyakarta 50: Scottsdale leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Scottsdale and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Scottsdale
46match

Wins on wellness and nightlife 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.

Scottsdale in July

41 °Cdaytime high
29 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 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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ScottsdaleYogyakarta

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. Scottsdale: 1991-2020 normals, Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport (13.3 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureScottsdaleYogyakarta
Official language-Indonesian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+7
Emergency number911112
Elevation380 m113 m
Main airportPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)10 km from centre148 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureScottsdaleYogyakarta
City population241,361422,732
People per km²-13,007
Museums within 10 km1038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
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.