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Catania 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, 2 points apart

Catania
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

Jakarta
54
match

Wins on value for money 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.

CataniaJakarta
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 3 points.3
CataniaJakarta
Score5861
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km55
Coast distance1 km8 km
Water distance1 km8 km
Places to eat. Jakarta leads by 7 points.7
CataniaJakarta
Score4956
Restaurants within 2 km of centre637908
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1416
Museums & heritage. Catania leads by 31 points.31
CataniaJakarta
Score5928
Museums within 10 km3426
Museums within 2 km of centre2710
Share of museums within 2 km %7938
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 10 points.10
CataniaJakarta
Score4757
Drinking venues within 4 km5371,046
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre403372
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7536
Nightclubs within 4 km1810
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 23 points.23
CataniaJakarta
Score3154
Protected land share 50 km %10—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6172
Park area within 2 km11 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Catania leads by 3 points.3
CataniaJakarta
Score3633
Tourist attractions within 2 km252
Park area within 2 km11 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Jakarta leads by 8 points.8
CataniaJakarta
Score3947
Notable places within 2 km3758
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 25 points.25
CataniaJakarta
Score6893
Price level global64.929.9
Daily budget€155—
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 16 points.16
CataniaJakarta
Score7761
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C30.5 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 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
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
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. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCataniaJakarta
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€201-205
CTA · 4 km
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€166-455
CTA · 4 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 2026-09 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

MeasureCataniaJakarta
Official languageItalianIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m91 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaJakarta
City population311,58411,135,191
People per km²1,70416,821
Museums within 10 km2544
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre3035
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.