VacationSelector

Beijing 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, 1 point apart

Beijing
53
match

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

Jakarta
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

BeijingJakarta
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 61 points.61
BeijingJakarta
Score061
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km05
Coast distance145 km8 km
Water distance8 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing leads by 35 points.35
BeijingJakarta
Score6328
Museums within 10 km9526
Museums within 2 km of centre1510
Share of museums within 2 km %1638
Unesco sites within 50 km60
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 19 points.19
BeijingJakarta
Score3554
Protected land share 50 km %3
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10072
Park area within 2 km143 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 44 points.44
BeijingJakarta
Score7733
Tourist attractions within 2 km412
Park area within 2 km143 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km125
Sights concentration. Beijing leads by 3 points.3
BeijingJakarta
Score5047
Notable places within 2 km6958
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 14 points.14
BeijingJakarta
Score7993
Price level global4929.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Beijing leads by 5 points.5
BeijingJakarta
Score6661
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C30.5 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm39 mm to 360 mm
Dry months81
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
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Beijing
No coastline within reach
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBeijingJakarta
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 45 m
€180-197
PKX · 45 km
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
Denpasar (Bali)DPS
7 h 0 m
no fares
PKX · 45 km
1 h 50 m
€129-136
CGK · 20 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
5 h 45 m
no fares
PKX · 45 km
2 h 0 m
€120-134
CGK · 20 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
1 h 55 m
€144-160
PKX · 45 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
5 h 50 m
no fares
PKX · 45 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
4 h 30 m
€173-234
1 stop
PKX · 45 km
3 h 20 m
€217-232
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
HaikouHAK
3 h 20 m
€226-281
PKX · 45 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
ChengduTFU, CTU
2 h 25 m
€217-253
PKX · 45 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
JeddahJED
9 h 25 m
no fares
PKX · 45 km
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 55 m
no fares
PEK · 25 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

MeasureBeijingJakarta
Official languagePutonghuaIndonesian
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation43 m91 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingJakarta
City population21,893,09511,135,191
People per km²1,33416,821
Museums within 10 km8344
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre2935
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.