VacationSelector

Chicago 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

Chicago
56
match

Wins on places to eat and sights concentration with your weighting.

Jakarta
54
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

ChicagoJakarta
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 8 points.8
ChicagoJakarta
Score5361
Swim season months112
Beaches 10 km125
Coast distance10,000 km8 km
Water distance1 km8 km
Places to eat. Chicago leads by 25 points.25
ChicagoJakarta
Score8156
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,147908
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3716
Museums & heritage. Chicago leads by 18 points.18
ChicagoJakarta
Score4628
Museums within 10 km4526
Museums within 2 km of centre2010
Share of museums within 2 km %4438
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Chicago leads by 5 points.5
ChicagoJakarta
Score6257
Drinking venues within 4 km1,1231,046
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre728372
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6536
Nightclubs within 4 km5110
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 16 points.16
ChicagoJakarta
Score3854
Protected land share 50 km %6
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10072
Park area within 2 km118 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Chicago leads by 22 points.22
ChicagoJakarta
Score5533
Tourist attractions within 2 km182
Park area within 2 km118 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Chicago leads by 23 points.23
ChicagoJakarta
Score7047
Notable places within 2 km21758
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 50 points.50
ChicagoJakarta
Score4393
Price level global10029.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Jakarta leads by 4 points.4
ChicagoJakarta
Score5761
Monthly daytime high0.2 °C to 29.4 °C30.5 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 121 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
Chicago
0
3
9
15
22
27
29
28
25
17
10
3
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Chicago
3
2
2
4
7
14
21
23
20
15
9
6
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rainfall, mm
Chicago
58
54
68
105
121
115
102
104
85
98
69
59
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Daylight, hours per day
Chicago
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Chicago
No sunshine record
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. Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromChicagoJakarta
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
SeoulICN, GMP
13 h 5 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
8 h 25 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
Abu DhabiAUH
14 h 25 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
8 h 25 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureChicagoJakarta
Official languageIndonesian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number911112
Elevation179 m91 m
Main airportChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre272 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureChicagoJakarta
City population2,746,38811,135,191
People per km²4,52916,821
Museums within 10 km4344
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8735
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 month12 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.