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The Opera House from the water, Sydney
SydneyThe Opera House from the water
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Sydney by Bernard Spragg, CC0; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Sydney 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 Sydney for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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. Sydney 95, Yogyakarta 22: Sydney leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Sydney 77, Yogyakarta 62: Sydney leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Sydney 60, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Sydney 60, Yogyakarta 32: Sydney leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sydney 85, Yogyakarta 72: Sydney leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Sydney 50, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Sydney 75, Yogyakarta 40: Sydney leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Sydney 75, Yogyakarta 35: Sydney leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Sydney 68, Yogyakarta 52: Sydney leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Sydney 22, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 70 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sydney 73, Yogyakarta 58: Sydney leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sydney 55, Yogyakarta 50: Sydney leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sydney and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Sydney
Best match
66match

Wins on beaches and getting around 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.

Sydney in July

18 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
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. Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureSydneyYogyakarta
Official languageEnglishIndonesian
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number000112
Elevation6 m113 m
Main airportSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureSydneyYogyakarta
City population5,450,496422,732
People per km²44913,007
Museums within 10 km3838
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.