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The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta
York Minster from the city walls, York
YorkYork Minster from the city walls

Photos: Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; York by PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Yogyakarta or York?

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 Yogyakarta for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose York for

  • getting around
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on York’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. Yogyakarta 22, York 14: Yogyakarta leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Yogyakarta 62, York 42: Yogyakarta leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Yogyakarta 68, York 70: York leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Yogyakarta 32, York 36: York leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Yogyakarta 72, York 62: Yogyakarta leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Yogyakarta 78, York 80: York leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Yogyakarta 40, York 60: York leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Yogyakarta 35, York 72: York leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Yogyakarta 52, York 46: Yogyakarta leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Yogyakarta 92, York 38: Yogyakarta leads by 54 points.
Live music & performing arts. Yogyakarta 58, York 38: Yogyakarta leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Yogyakarta 50, York 34: Yogyakarta leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Yogyakarta and York.

Your match

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

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

York
49match

Wins on getting around and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

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

York in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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YogyakartaYork

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.

York has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

York's sunshine is measured 48 km from the centre, at Leeming.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. York: 1991-2020 normals, Linton-On-Ouse (14.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureYogyakartaYork
Official languageIndonesianEnglish
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation113 m25 m
Main airportYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-8 days

By the numbers

MeasureYogyakartaYork
City population422,732208,400
People per km²13,007766
Museums within 10 km3824
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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). 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.