VacationSelector

Barcelona or Jakarta?

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

Your match

Barcelona
✓ Best match
71
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat with your weighting.

Jakarta
54
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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.

BarcelonaJakarta
Beaches & swimming. Barcelona leads by 4 points.4
BarcelonaJakarta
Score6561
Swim season months312
Beaches 10 km205
Coast distance2 km8 km
Water distance2 km8 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 34 points.34
BarcelonaJakarta
Score9056
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,786908
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4116
Museums & heritage. Barcelona leads by 40 points.40
BarcelonaJakarta
Score6828
Museums within 10 km10526
Museums within 2 km of centre4910
Share of museums within 2 km %4738
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 25 points.25
BarcelonaJakarta
Score8257
Drinking venues within 4 km2,7111,046
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,641372
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6136
Nightclubs within 4 km24510
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 4 points.4
BarcelonaJakarta
Score5054
Protected land share 50 km %10
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5172
Park area within 2 km49 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Barcelona leads by 32 points.32
BarcelonaJakarta
Score6533
Tourist attractions within 2 km602
Park area within 2 km49 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Barcelona leads by 26 points.26
BarcelonaJakarta
Score7347
Notable places within 2 km25858
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 22 points.22
BarcelonaJakarta
Score7193
Price level global60.829.9
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Barcelona leads by 17 points.17
BarcelonaJakarta
Score7861
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 28.9 °C30.5 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 83 mm39 mm to 360 mm
Dry months51
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
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
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. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaJakarta
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€132-158
BCN · 13 km
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
13 h 30 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 55 m
€459-799
2 stops
BCN · 13 km
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€173-293
BCN · 13 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
DohaDOH
6 h 25 m
€282-445
2 stops
BCN · 13 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
JeddahJED
5 h 30 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€369-388
BCN · 13 km
8 h 20 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

MeasureBarcelonaJakarta
Official languageSpanishIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation9 m91 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaJakarta
City population1,731,64911,135,191
People per km²17,09416,821
Museums within 10 km9544
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre12835
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.