Ubud, Bali: Where to Eat, What to Do and Where to Stay

Ubud is roughly 35 to 38 km from the airport, and the drive takes 1.5 to 2 hours in traffic, though some sources say 1 to 1.5 hours when the roads are clear. Canggu is about 25 km and around an hour away, and Seminyak is about 30 km and 1 to 1.5 hours. Uluwatu is further, at 53 to 58 km, and the time depends heavily on the hour: Bali Holiday Secrets gives 70 to 85 minutes at 6 to 7:30am, 100 to 125 minutes at midday and 135 to 180 minutes or more in the late afternoon.

Inside Ubud the centre is compact enough to walk, but the outskirts need a scooter, a driver or a taxi, and crowd-sourced reviews on Nomads.com describe walkability as limited and the town as not designed for its traffic. Ride-hailing is the confusing one. Bali Holiday Secrets says Grab and Gojek face local restrictions in Ubud, that pickups are the problem rather than drop-offs, and that you may have to walk a few hundred metres to a pickup point, yet the same site's Ubud guide calls them cheap and easy for short trips. Read that as restricted at pickup points in the centre and often workable if you walk a bit, not as a formal ban. We couldn't verify the rule itself.

If you rent a scooter, Bali Holiday Secrets says you need an international driving permit alongside your home licence, and a helmet is mandatory. A private car with a driver costs about USD 60 to 80 for ten hours on the same site's figures.

Weather Spark's modelled climate data puts the wet season at roughly 10 November to 6 April and the dry season at roughly 6 April to 10 November, with temperatures typically between 22 and 31°C. January is the wettest month at about 264 mm, and August is the driest at about 16 mm. Humidity is high all year.

Weather Spark rates mid-June to mid-September as the best stretch. Bali Holiday Secrets puts the dry season at April to October and says November to March is greener with fewer people, which is the trade you make by going when it rains. Wikipedia gives Ubud a tropical rainforest climate with about 2,244 mm of rain a year.

The big name has gone: Roampads (13 December 2025) and Destined for Bali (9 July 2026) both say Hubud has closed, though older pages still list its prices. The established option now is Outpost Ubud, which Destined for Bali lists at USD 15 for a day pass, USD 195 for unlimited monthly access and USD 232 for a dedicated desk, with memberships that work across Bali locations. Roampads also names The Onion Collective and Beluna House of Creatives. Those are commercial blogs, so check a space's own site before you buy.

Internet is the part to be careful with. Nomads.com's crowd-sourced average was 14 Mbps when we looked, which is low and is a visitors' average, not a measurement we made. Roampads describes Outpost's fibre as consistently fast and reliable, which is a claim from a blog, not a speed test.

Every foreign visitor pays an IDR 150,000 levy, introduced by Bali Governor Regulation No. 2 of 2024 and launched in February 2024. The Indonesia Guide, citing the official portal, says it's unchanged as of 2026. Indonesian citizens, KITAS and KITAP holders, diplomatic passport holders on duty and crew on duty are exempt, and you pay at lovebali.baliprov.go.id or at the airport.