VacationSelector

Budapest or Jakarta?

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

Your match

Budapest
✓ Best match
60
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.

BudapestJakarta
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 61 points.61
BudapestJakarta
Score061
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km65
Coast distance10,000 km8 km
Water distance8 km
Places to eat. Budapest leads by 21 points.21
BudapestJakarta
Score7756
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,699908
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3516
Museums & heritage. Budapest leads by 36 points.36
BudapestJakarta
Score6428
Museums within 10 km14426
Museums within 2 km of centre6410
Share of museums within 2 km %4438
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Budapest leads by 15 points.15
BudapestJakarta
Score7257
Drinking venues within 4 km1,7651,046
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,168372
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6636
Nightclubs within 4 km9710
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 14 points.14
BudapestJakarta
Score4054
Protected land share 50 km %8
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10072
Park area within 2 km111 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Budapest leads by 38 points.38
BudapestJakarta
Score7133
Tourist attractions within 2 km752
Park area within 2 km111 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Budapest leads by 22 points.22
BudapestJakarta
Score6947
Notable places within 2 km20658
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 13 points.13
BudapestJakarta
Score8093
Price level global4829.9
Daily budget€104
Year-round weather. Budapest leads by 3 points.3
BudapestJakarta
Score6461
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 27.9 °C30.5 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 75 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
Budapest
4
7
11
17
22
26
27
28
22
16
9
4
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Budapest
No coastline within reach
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rainfall, mm
Budapest
29
27
30
37
67
67
75
60
48
41
48
39
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Daylight, hours per day
Budapest
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Budapest
2
4
5
7
9
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBudapestJakarta
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 50 m
€87-214
BUD · 18 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 5 m
€175-230
1 stop
BUD · 18 km
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 15 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 25 m
€276-394
2 stops
BUD · 18 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
JeddahJED
4 h 40 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
GuangzhouCAN
10 h 35 m
no fares
BUD · 18 km
4 h 35 m
€208-270
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 30 m
€698-839
3 stops
BUD · 18 km
5 h 55 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

MeasureBudapestJakarta
Official languageHungarianIndonesian
CurrencyForint (HUF)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation117 m91 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre155 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestJakarta
City population1,685,20911,135,191
People per km²3,20916,821
Museums within 10 km8144
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8635
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.