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The British Columbia Parliament Buildings, Victoria
VictoriaThe British Columbia Parliament Buildings
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

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

Victoria 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 Victoria for

  • getting around
  • families
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria’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. Victoria 28, Yogyakarta 22: Victoria leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Victoria 50, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Victoria 42, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Victoria 30, Yogyakarta 32: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Victoria 77, Yogyakarta 72: Victoria leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Victoria 54, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Victoria 62, Yogyakarta 40: Victoria leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Victoria 60, Yogyakarta 35: Victoria leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Victoria 40, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Victoria 34, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 58 points.
Live music & performing arts. Victoria 40, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Victoria 48, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Victoria and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Victoria
47match

Wins on getting around and families 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.

Victoria in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
11 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
16 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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VictoriaYogyakarta

Where the figures come from

Victoria's sunshine is measured 87 km from the centre, at Vancouver International Airport.

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. Victoria: 1991-2020 normals, Victoria Gonzales CS (3.6 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureVictoriaYogyakarta
Official languageFrench, EnglishIndonesian
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911112
Elevation23 m113 m
Main airportVictoria International Airport (YYJ)25 km from centre16 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureVictoriaYogyakarta
City population91,867422,732
People per km²4,71113,007
Museums within 10 km638
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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.