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Buenos Aires or Jakarta?

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

Your match

Buenos Aires
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

Buenos AiresJakarta
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 28 points.28
Buenos AiresJakarta
Score3361
Swim season months412
Beaches 10 km05
Coast distance2 km8 km
Water distance2 km8 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 11 points.11
Buenos AiresJakarta
Score6756
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,197908
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2616
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 38 points.38
Buenos AiresJakarta
Score6628
Museums within 10 km14826
Museums within 2 km of centre7110
Share of museums within 2 km %4838
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 11 points.11
Buenos AiresJakarta
Score6857
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2951,046
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777372
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6036
Nightclubs within 4 km16010
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 11 points.11
Buenos AiresJakarta
Score4354
Protected land share 50 km %9—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %6772
Park area within 2 km69 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 36 points.36
Buenos AiresJakarta
Score6933
Tourist attractions within 2 km492
Park area within 2 km69 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km65
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 13 points.13
Buenos AiresJakarta
Score6047
Notable places within 2 km12558
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 11 points.11
Buenos AiresJakarta
Score8293
Price level global45.829.9
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 14 points.14
Buenos AiresJakarta
Score7561
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C30.5 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 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
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
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. Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresJakarta
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
23 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
11 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

MeasureBuenos AiresJakarta
Official languageSpanishIndonesian
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+7
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation25 m91 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresJakarta
City population3,121,70711,135,191
People per km²15,35516,821
Museums within 10 km7544
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5535
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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.