VacationSelector

Boston 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

Boston
55
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Jakarta
54
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BostonJakarta
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 1 points.1
BostonJakarta
Score6061
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km685
Coast distance1 km8 km
Water distance1 km8 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 17 points.17
BostonJakarta
Score7356
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,452908
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3216
Museums & heritage. Boston leads by 15 points.15
BostonJakarta
Score4328
Museums within 10 km7926
Museums within 2 km of centre2710
Share of museums within 2 km %3438
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Boston leads by 1 points.1
BostonJakarta
Score5857
Drinking venues within 4 km8861,046
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre513372
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5836
Nightclubs within 4 km4310
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 1 points.1
BostonJakarta
Score5354
Protected land share 50 km %12
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7772
Park area within 2 km116 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Boston leads by 20 points.20
BostonJakarta
Score5333
Tourist attractions within 2 km282
Park area within 2 km116 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Boston leads by 11 points.11
BostonJakarta
Score5847
Notable places within 2 km11158
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 50 points.50
BostonJakarta
Score4393
Price level global10029.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Jakarta leads by 5 points.5
BostonJakarta
Score5661
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C30.5 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 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
Boston
3
4
8
14
19
25
28
27
23
17
11
6
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
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
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
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. Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonJakarta
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
SeoulICN, GMP
13 h 35 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
Abu DhabiAUH
13 h 15 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
13 h 25 m
no fares
BOS · 4 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBostonJakarta
Official languageIndonesian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911112
Elevation43 m91 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonJakarta
City population675,64711,135,191
People per km²2,91016,821
Museums within 10 km5144
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre7435
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). 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. 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.