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Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
CardiffCardiff Castle
The Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta
JakartaThe Istiqlal Mosque

Photos: Cardiff by Tevfik Teker, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Jakarta by Antonyus Bunjamin, Pexels License.

Cardiff or Jakarta?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Cardiff for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Cardiff’s own page.

Choose Jakarta for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Jakarta’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Cardiff 30, Jakarta 28: Cardiff leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Cardiff 45, Jakarta 78: Jakarta leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Cardiff 58, Jakarta 48: Cardiff leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Cardiff 50, Jakarta 66: Jakarta leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cardiff 70, Jakarta 30: Cardiff leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Cardiff 72, Jakarta 45: Cardiff leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Cardiff 58, Jakarta 50: Cardiff leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Cardiff 66, Jakarta 36: Cardiff leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Cardiff 50, Jakarta 64: Jakarta leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Cardiff 46, Jakarta 80: Jakarta leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cardiff 57, Jakarta 42: Cardiff leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cardiff 27, Jakarta 46: Jakarta leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cardiff and Jakarta.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Cardiff
52match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

Jakarta
51match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Cardiff in July

20 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Jakarta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Cardiff has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Cardiff's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Lyneham.

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

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 centre30 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre89 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 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
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.