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Ubud or Washington DC?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Rice terraces and palms at Tegallalang, Ubud
Ubud

Photo: Pinterpandai, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped

The US Capitol, Washington DC
Washington DC

Photo: Guohua Song, Pexels License

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Ubud
54
match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

Washington DC
56
match

Wins on getting around and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

UbudWashington DC
Beaches & swimming. Ubud leads by 28 points.28
Food & drink. Washington DC leads by 12 points.12
Culture & sights. Washington DC leads by 26 points.26
Nightlife. Washington DC leads by 43 points.43
Nature & outdoors. Ubud leads by 12 points.12
Day trips. Washington DC leads by 5 points.5
Good for families. Washington DC leads by 29 points.29
Getting around. Washington DC leads by 62 points.62
Shopping & style. Washington DC leads by 2 points.2
Affordability. Ubud leads by 54 points.54
Live music & performing arts. Washington DC leads by 12 points.12
Wellness & relaxation. Ubud leads by 70 points.70
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ubud and Washington DC.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyUbudWashington DC
Daytime high29 °C32 °C
Night-time low24 °C22 °C
Rainfall in the month27 mm108 mm
Sunshine9 hours a dayNo figure
Sea temperature27 °C25 °C
Daylight12 hours a day15 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Ubud
31
31
31
31
31
30
29
29
30
31
32
31
Washington DC
7
9
13
20
24
29
32
31
27
21
14
9
Sea temperature, °C
Ubud
29
29
29
29
28
28
27
26
27
27
28
29
Washington DC
3
3
4
9
14
20
25
26
23
18
12
7
Rainfall, mm
Ubud
396
289
222
125
76
38
27
12
30
74
132
295
Washington DC
72
65
89
82
101
107
108
83
100
93
74
86
Daylight, hours per day
Ubud
13
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
13
Washington DC
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Ubud
7
6
7
8
9
8
9
9
9
9
8
6
Washington DC
No sunshine record

Where the figures come from

Ubud's temperatures are measured 29 km from the centre, at Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai.

Ubud's station stands 209 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ubud: 1991-2020 normals, Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai (29 km from centre). Washington DC: 1991-2020 normals, Washington National Airport (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromUbudWashington DC
SeoulICN, GMP
6 h 50 m
€317-331
DPS · 29 km
13 h 50 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
Abu DhabiAUH
9 h 30 m
€560-729
DPS · 29 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
14 h 45 m
€655-1139
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
15 h 0 m
€615-646
DPS · 29 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
12 h 50 m
€633-726
DPS · 29 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
9 h 30 m
€461-573
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
14 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
7 h 5 m
€286-290
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
DohaDOH
9 h 55 m
€774-911
2 stops
DPS · 29 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
JeddahJED
11 h 10 m
€700-720
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
TokyoHND, NRT
7 h 15 m
€391-601
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-10 to 2026-12, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureUbudWashington DC
Official languageIndonesian-
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation210 m72 m
Main airportDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsRonald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)5 km from centre105 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureUbudWashington DC
City population-689,545
People per km²-3,896
Museums within 10 km1499
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.