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The red aerial tram nearing the top of Hidden Peak, Snowbird
SnowbirdThe red aerial tram nearing the top of Hidden Peak
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

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

Snowbird 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 Snowbird for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Snowbird’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. Snowbird 5, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Snowbird 20, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Snowbird 5, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 63 points.
Nightlife. Snowbird 9, Yogyakarta 32: Yogyakarta leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Snowbird 92, Yogyakarta 72: Snowbird leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Snowbird 47, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Snowbird 42, Yogyakarta 40: Snowbird leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Snowbird 40, Yogyakarta 35: Snowbird leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Snowbird 8, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 44 points.
Affordability. Snowbird 15, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 77 points.
Live music & performing arts. Snowbird 8, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Snowbird 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: Snowbird and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Snowbird
28match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around 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.

Snowbird in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
No seasea
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

Snowbird 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.

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. Snowbird: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km. Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureSnowbirdYogyakarta
Official language-Indonesian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,479 m113 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)36 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSnowbirdYogyakarta
City population-422,732
People per km²-13,007
Museums within 10 km038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.