VacationSelector

Alicante or Jakarta?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Alicante
56
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Jakarta
54
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AlicanteJakarta
Beaches & swimming. Alicante leads by 16 points.16
AlicanteJakarta
Score7761
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km335
Coast distance1 km8 km
Water distance1 km8 km
Places to eat. Alicante leads by 10 points.10
AlicanteJakarta
Score6656
Restaurants within 2 km of centre867908
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3116
Museums & heritage. Alicante leads by 14 points.14
AlicanteJakarta
Score4228
Museums within 10 km1426
Museums within 2 km of centre1110
Share of museums within 2 km %7938
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 6 points.6
AlicanteJakarta
Score5157
Drinking venues within 4 km5911,046
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre488372
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8336
Nightclubs within 4 km5410
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 14 points.14
AlicanteJakarta
Score4054
Protected land share 50 km %7—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5972
Park area within 2 km60 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Alicante leads by 9 points.9
AlicanteJakarta
Score4233
Tourist attractions within 2 km132
Park area within 2 km60 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Jakarta leads by 21 points.21
AlicanteJakarta
Score2647
Notable places within 2 km1858
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 22 points.22
AlicanteJakarta
Score7193
Price level global60.829.9
Daily budget€122—
Year-round weather. Alicante leads by 26 points.26
AlicanteJakarta
Score8761
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 31.1 °C30.5 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 52 mm39 mm to 360 mm
Dry months111
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Alicante
17
18
20
22
24
28
30
31
29
25
21
18
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Alicante
15
14
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rainfall, mm
Alicante
21
18
25
34
21
8
3
12
52
32
34
23
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Daylight, hours per day
Alicante
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Alicante
6
6
8
8
10
10
11
10
8
7
6
6
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alicante: 1991-2020 normals, Alicante (2.8 km from centre). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAlicanteJakarta
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€150-169
1 stop
ALC · 10 km
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAlicanteJakarta
Official languageSpanishIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m91 m
Main airportAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández Airport (ALC)10 km from centre124 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAlicanteJakarta
City population366,22111,135,191
People per km²1,81916,821
Museums within 10 km844
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre5235
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.