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Athens or Jakarta?

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

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
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.

AthensJakarta
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 13 points.13
AthensJakarta
Score4861
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km145
Coast distance6 km8 km
Water distance6 km8 km
Places to eat. Athens leads by 13 points.13
AthensJakarta
Score6956
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,431908
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2516
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 45 points.45
AthensJakarta
Score7328
Museums within 10 km12226
Museums within 2 km of centre7810
Share of museums within 2 km %6438
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Athens leads by 24 points.24
AthensJakarta
Score8157
Drinking venues within 4 km2,7181,046
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,354372
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5036
Nightclubs within 4 km13610
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 9 points.9
AthensJakarta
Score4554
Protected land share 50 km %5
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5072
Park area within 2 km128 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 38 points.38
AthensJakarta
Score7133
Tourist attractions within 2 km682
Park area within 2 km128 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 28 points.28
AthensJakarta
Score7547
Notable places within 2 km29158
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 19 points.19
AthensJakarta
Score7493
Price level global55.829.9
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Athens leads by 13 points.13
AthensJakarta
Score7461
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C30.5 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm39 mm to 360 mm
Dry months71
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
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
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
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
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. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensJakarta
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
11 h 20 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 15 m
€202-223
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 40 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 30 m
€286-308
ATH · 20 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
JeddahJED
3 h 25 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
CairoCAI, SPX, CCE
2 h 0 m
€182-196
ATH · 20 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
DohaDOH
4 h 10 m
no fares
ATH · 20 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
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

MeasureAthensJakarta
Official languageGreekIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation74 m91 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensJakarta
City population643,45211,135,191
People per km²16,49916,821
Museums within 10 km8844
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre8235
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.