VacationSelector

Berlin or Jakarta?

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

Your match

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

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

Jakarta
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

BerlinJakarta
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 61 points.61
BerlinJakarta
Score061
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km175
Coast distance142 km8 km
Water distance—8 km
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 14 points.14
BerlinJakarta
Score7056
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,117908
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3316
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 51 points.51
BerlinJakarta
Score7928
Museums within 10 km20026
Museums within 2 km of centre8110
Share of museums within 2 km %4138
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 19 points.19
BerlinJakarta
Score7657
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1141,046
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719372
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3436
Nightclubs within 4 km13510
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 5 points.5
BerlinJakarta
Score4954
Protected land share 50 km %20—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %10072
Park area within 2 km141 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 43 points.43
BerlinJakarta
Score7633
Tourist attractions within 2 km542
Park area within 2 km141 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km55
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 37 points.37
BerlinJakarta
Score8447
Notable places within 2 km48658
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 33 points.33
BerlinJakarta
Score6093
Price level global75.929.9
Daily budget€163—
Year-round weather. Jakarta leads by 1 points.1
BerlinJakarta
Score6061
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C30.5 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm39 mm to 360 mm
Dry months31
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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
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
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinJakarta
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
JeddahJED
5 h 25 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 km
6 h 50 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

MeasureBerlinJakarta
Official languageGermanIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation34 m91 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinJakarta
City population3,782,20211,135,191
People per km²4,24416,821
Museums within 10 km15844
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8635
Swim season, months above 21 °C–12 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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.