VacationSelector

Cardiff or Jakarta?

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

Your match

Cardiff
48
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat with your weighting.

Jakarta
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

CardiffJakarta
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 15 points.15
CardiffJakarta
Score4661
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km85
Coast distance2 km8 km
Water distance2 km8 km
Places to eat. Cardiff leads by 4 points.4
CardiffJakarta
Score6056
Restaurants within 2 km of centre541908
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3216
Museums & heritage. Cardiff leads by 11 points.11
CardiffJakarta
Score3928
Museums within 10 km6126
Museums within 2 km of centre610
Share of museums within 2 km %1038
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 9 points.9
CardiffJakarta
Score4857
Drinking venues within 4 km5361,046
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre395372
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7436
Nightclubs within 4 km3510
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 4 points.4
CardiffJakarta
Score5054
Protected land share 50 km %18
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %6872
Park area within 2 km88 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Jakarta leads by 1 points.1
CardiffJakarta
Score3233
Tourist attractions within 2 km42
Park area within 2 km88 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Jakarta leads by 2 points.2
CardiffJakarta
Score4547
Notable places within 2 km5158
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 39 points.39
CardiffJakarta
Score5493
Price level global84.929.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Jakarta leads by 7 points.7
CardiffJakarta
Score5461
Monthly daytime high7.7 °C to 20.2 °C30.5 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 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
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rainfall, mm
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Daylight, hours per day
Cardiff
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
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
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. Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCardiffJakarta
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
JeddahJED
6 h 25 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
10 h 5 m
€493-631
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

MeasureCardiffJakarta
Official languageEnglishIndonesian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation41 m91 m
Main airportCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureCardiffJakarta
City population383,53611,135,191
People per km²2,73416,821
Museums within 10 km944
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5535
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.