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Ubud or York?

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

York Minster from the city walls, York
York

Photo: PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

Your match

Ubud
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on wellness and prices with your weighting.

York
49
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.

UbudYork
Beaches & swimming. Ubud leads by 26 points.26
Food & drink. Ubud leads by 13 points.13
Culture & sights. York leads by 12 points.12
Nightlife. York leads by 22 points.22
Nature & outdoors. Ubud leads by 14 points.14
Day trips. York leads by 12 points.12
Good for families. York leads by 16 points.16
Getting around. York leads by 62 points.62
Shopping & style. Ubud leads by 4 points.4
Affordability. Ubud leads by 44 points.44
Live music & performing arts. Ubud leads by 17 points.17
Wellness & relaxation. Ubud leads by 62 points.62
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ubud and York.

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
JulyUbudYork
Daytime high29 °C21 °C
Night-time low24 °C12 °C
Rainfall in the month27 mm56 mm
Sunshine9 hours a day6 hours a day
Sea temperature27 °CNo sea
Daylight12 hours a day17 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
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Ubud
31
31
31
31
31
30
29
29
30
31
32
31
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Ubud
29
29
29
29
28
28
27
26
27
27
28
29
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Ubud
396
289
222
125
76
38
27
12
30
74
132
295
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Ubud
13
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
13
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Ubud
7
6
7
8
9
8
9
9
9
9
8
6
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

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.

York's temperatures are measured 48 km from the centre, at Leeming.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ubud: 1991-2020 normals, Denpasar / Ngurah-Rai (29 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromUbudYork
SingaporeSIN, XSP
2 h 40 m
€139-147
DPS · 29 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
13 h 40 m
€782-910
3 stops
DPS · 29 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
4 h 10 m
€230-254
DPS · 29 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AmsterdamAMS
15 h 0 m
€615-646
DPS · 29 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
7 h 5 m
€286-290
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
5 h 55 m
€254-317
DPS · 29 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
Hong KongHKG
4 h 45 m
€316-337
DPS · 29 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
PhuketHKT
3 h 45 m
€168-232
DPS · 29 km
12 h 25 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
14 h 45 m
€655-1139
1 stop
DPS · 29 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
Abu DhabiAUH
9 h 30 m
€560-729
DPS · 29 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureUbudYork
Official languageIndonesianEnglish
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation210 m25 m
Main airportDenpasar I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS)29 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-8 days

By the numbers

MeasureUbudYork
City population-208,400
People per km²-766
Museums within 10 km1424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.