VacationSelector

Dresden or Jakarta?

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

Your match

Dresden
48
match

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

Jakarta
✓ Best match
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.

DresdenJakarta
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 61 points.61
DresdenJakarta
Score061
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km225
Coast distance267 km8 km
Water distance8 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 5 points.5
DresdenJakarta
Score6156
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422908
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4216
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 26 points.26
DresdenJakarta
Score5428
Museums within 10 km6626
Museums within 2 km of centre3410
Share of museums within 2 km %5238
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 15 points.15
DresdenJakarta
Score4257
Drinking venues within 4 km3591,046
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265372
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7436
Nightclubs within 4 km4310
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 15 points.15
DresdenJakarta
Score3954
Protected land share 50 km %14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10072
Park area within 2 km80 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 26 points.26
DresdenJakarta
Score5933
Tourist attractions within 2 km322
Park area within 2 km80 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
DresdenJakarta
Score5347
Notable places within 2 km8258
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 33 points.33
DresdenJakarta
Score6093
Price level global75.929.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 1 points.1
DresdenJakarta
Score6261
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C30.5 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm39 mm to 360 mm
Dry months41
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
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
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
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
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. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenJakarta
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 45 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
3 h 20 m
€217-232
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
JeddahJED
5 h 10 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 147 km
6 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 2026-08 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

MeasureDresdenJakarta
Official languageGermanIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation126 m91 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenJakarta
City population564,90411,135,191
People per km²1,72016,821
Museums within 10 km7044
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7735
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.