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Palms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue, West Palm Beach
West Palm BeachPalms at CityPlace on Rosemary Avenue
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: West Palm Beach by Michael Rivera, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

West Palm Beach 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 West Palm Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on West Palm Beach’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. West Palm Beach 80, Yogyakarta 22: West Palm Beach leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. West Palm Beach 52, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. West Palm Beach 42, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. West Palm Beach 36, Yogyakarta 32: West Palm Beach leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. West Palm Beach 58, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 14 points.
Day trips. West Palm Beach 55, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 23 points.
Good for families. West Palm Beach 66, Yogyakarta 40: West Palm Beach leads by 26 points.
Getting around. West Palm Beach 38, Yogyakarta 35: West Palm Beach leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. West Palm Beach 64, Yogyakarta 52: West Palm Beach leads by 12 points.
Affordability. West Palm Beach 23, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 69 points.
Live music & performing arts. West Palm Beach 47, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. West Palm Beach 44, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: West Palm Beach and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

West Palm Beach
50match

Wins on beaches 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.

West Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 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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West Palm BeachYogyakarta

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. West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureWest Palm BeachYogyakarta
Official language-Indonesian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911112
Elevation6 m113 m
Main airportPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureWest Palm BeachYogyakarta
City population117,415422,732
People per km²78613,007
Museums within 10 km438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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.