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Castle Square and the Royal Castle, Warsaw
WarsawCastle Square and the Royal Castle
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Warsaw by Raymond Petrik, Pexels License; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Warsaw 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 Warsaw for

  • getting around
  • nightlife
  • families

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Warsaw 12, Yogyakarta 22: Yogyakarta leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Warsaw 60, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Warsaw 70, Yogyakarta 68: Warsaw leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Warsaw 66, Yogyakarta 32: Warsaw leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Warsaw 47, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Warsaw 52, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Warsaw 62, Yogyakarta 40: Warsaw leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Warsaw 72, Yogyakarta 35: Warsaw leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Warsaw 55, Yogyakarta 52: Warsaw leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Warsaw 64, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Warsaw 63, Yogyakarta 58: Warsaw leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Warsaw 35, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Warsaw and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Warsaw
55match

Wins on getting around and nightlife 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.

Warsaw in July

25 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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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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. Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureWarsawYogyakarta
Official languagePolishIndonesian
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation118 m113 m
Main airportWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre172 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureWarsawYogyakarta
City population1,862,402422,732
People per km²3,60113,007
Museums within 10 km11738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.