VacationSelector

Cologne or Jakarta?

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

Your match

Cologne
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Jakarta
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

CologneJakarta
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 61 points.61
CologneJakarta
Score061
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km405
Coast distance256 km8 km
Water distance—8 km
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 16 points.16
CologneJakarta
Score7256
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,142908
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3516
Museums & heritage. Cologne leads by 32 points.32
CologneJakarta
Score6028
Museums within 10 km4726
Museums within 2 km of centre2710
Share of museums within 2 km %5738
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Cologne leads by 7 points.7
CologneJakarta
Score6457
Drinking venues within 4 km1,1071,046
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre727372
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6636
Nightclubs within 4 km9010
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 17 points.17
CologneJakarta
Score7154
Protected land share 50 km %53—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %520
Land share of disc %10072
Park area within 2 km118 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 39 points.39
CologneJakarta
Score7233
Tourist attractions within 2 km432
Park area within 2 km118 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km65
Sights concentration. Cologne leads by 6 points.6
CologneJakarta
Score5347
Notable places within 2 km8158
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 33 points.33
CologneJakarta
Score6093
Price level global75.929.9
Daily budget€163—
Year-round weather. Jakarta leads by 1 points.1
CologneJakarta
Score6061
Monthly daytime high6.3 °C to 25 °C30.5 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall48 mm to 81 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
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Cologne
No coastline within reach
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rainfall, mm
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Daylight, hours per day
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1
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. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCologneJakarta
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
JeddahJED
5 h 40 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
55 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
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

MeasureCologneJakarta
Official languageGermanIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation59 m91 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureCologneJakarta
City population1,024,62111,135,191
People per km²2,53016,821
Museums within 10 km4044
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre8435
Swim season, months above 21 °C–12 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.