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Victoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter, Victoria Falls
Victoria FallsVictoria Falls and its gorge from a helicopter
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Victoria Falls by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Victoria Falls 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 Falls for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria Falls’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 Falls 7, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Victoria Falls 24, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Victoria Falls 12, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Victoria Falls 8, Yogyakarta 32: Yogyakarta leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Victoria Falls 94, Yogyakarta 72: Victoria Falls leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Victoria Falls 22, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 56 points.
Good for families. Victoria Falls 38, Yogyakarta 40: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Victoria Falls 45, Yogyakarta 35: Victoria Falls leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Victoria Falls 18, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Victoria Falls 32, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Victoria Falls 10, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Victoria Falls 34, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Victoria Falls and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Victoria Falls
29match

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.

Victoria Falls in July

26 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No seasea
11 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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Victoria FallsYogyakarta

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. Victoria Falls: 1991-2020 normals, Livingstone (13.1 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureVictoria FallsYogyakarta
Official languageEnglish, Xhosa, Ndau, Venda, Chewa, Khoisan, Kalanga, Shona, Tonga, Tswana, Tsonga, Sesotho, Northern Ndebele, Nambya, Zimbabwe Sign Language, BarweIndonesian
CurrencyZimbabwe Gold (ZWG)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+2UTC+7
Emergency number999112
Elevation961 m113 m
Main airportVictoria Falls International Airport (VFA)18 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days-

By the numbers

MeasureVictoria FallsYogyakarta
City population33,060422,732
People per km²-13,007
Museums within 10 km238
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. 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.