VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Jakarta?

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

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Jakarta
54
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

AmsterdamJakarta
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 21 points.21
AmsterdamJakarta
Score4061
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km335
Coast distance24 km8 km
Water distance24 km8 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 27 points.27
AmsterdamJakarta
Score8356
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957908
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4416
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 52 points.52
AmsterdamJakarta
Score8028
Museums within 10 km9826
Museums within 2 km of centre6910
Share of museums within 2 km %7038
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 13 points.13
AmsterdamJakarta
Score7057
Drinking venues within 4 km1,5431,046
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078372
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7036
Nightclubs within 4 km11410
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 6 points.6
AmsterdamJakarta
Score6054
Protected land share 50 km %21—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8272
Park area within 2 km49 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 35 points.35
AmsterdamJakarta
Score6833
Tourist attractions within 2 km742
Park area within 2 km49 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 21 points.21
AmsterdamJakarta
Score6847
Notable places within 2 km19658
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 35 points.35
AmsterdamJakarta
Score5893
Price level global79.229.9
Daily budget€181—
Year-round weather. Jakarta leads by 4 points.4
AmsterdamJakarta
Score5761
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C30.5 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm39 mm to 360 mm
Dry months01
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
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamJakarta
Denpasar (Bali)DPS
15 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€129-136
CGK · 20 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
12 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€120-134
CGK · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€166-175
AMS · 12 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
13 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
3 h 20 m
€217-232
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
JeddahJED
5 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
GuangzhouCAN
11 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
4 h 35 m
€208-270
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

MeasureAmsterdamJakarta
Official languageDutchIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation-2 m91 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamJakarta
City population921,46811,135,191
People per km²4,20816,821
Museums within 10 km10144
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre9835
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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.