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The Taj Mahal reflected in its pool, Agra
AgraThe Taj Mahal reflected in its pool
The Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta
JakartaThe Istiqlal Mosque

Photos: Agra by Sanket Sawale, Pexels License; Jakarta by Antonyus Bunjamin, Pexels License.

Agra or Jakarta?

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 Agra for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Jakarta for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Jakarta’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. Agra 3, Jakarta 28: Jakarta leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Agra 42, Jakarta 78: Jakarta leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Agra 80, Jakarta 48: Agra leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Agra 7, Jakarta 66: Jakarta leads by 59 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agra and Jakarta are level on 30.
Day trips. Agra 70, Jakarta 45: Agra leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Agra 20, Jakarta 50: Jakarta leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Agra 28, Jakarta 36: Jakarta leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Agra 38, Jakarta 64: Jakarta leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Agra 90, Jakarta 80: Agra leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agra 10, Jakarta 42: Jakarta leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agra 15, Jakarta 46: Jakarta leads by 31 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agra and Jakarta.

Your match

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

Agra
36match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Jakarta
Best match
51match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Agra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Jakarta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
29 °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

Agra 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Agra: 1942-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agra (6.2 km from centre). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgraJakarta
Official languageHindi, EnglishIndonesian
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC+7
Emergency number108 or 112112
Elevation171 m91 m
Main airportAgra Airport / Agra Air Force Station (AGR)6 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre89 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureAgraJakarta
City population1,585,70511,135,191
People per km²8,41716,821
Museums within 10 km044
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

Where else could you go?

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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). 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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.