VacationSelector

Dubai 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, 1 point apart

Dubai
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

Jakarta
54
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

DubaiJakarta
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 39 points.39
DubaiJakarta
Score10061
Swim season months1212
Beaches 10 km525
Coast distance0 km8 km
Water distance0 km8 km
Places to eat. Dubai leads by 10 points.10
DubaiJakarta
Score6656
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,086908
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2616
Museums & heritage. Dubai leads by 10 points.10
DubaiJakarta
Score3828
Museums within 10 km2626
Museums within 2 km of centre1810
Share of museums within 2 km %6938
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 4 points.4
DubaiJakarta
Score5357
Drinking venues within 4 km6011,046
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre306372
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5136
Nightclubs within 4 km8410
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 36 points.36
DubaiJakarta
Score1854
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5272
Park area within 2 km13 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Dubai leads by 16 points.16
DubaiJakarta
Score4933
Tourist attractions within 2 km372
Park area within 2 km13 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km45
Sights concentration. Jakarta leads by 10 points.10
DubaiJakarta
Score3747
Notable places within 2 km3358
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 24 points.24
DubaiJakarta
Score6993
Price level global63.429.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Dubai leads by 5 points.5
DubaiJakarta
Score6661
Monthly daytime high24.5 °C to 42.1 °C30.5 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 21 mm39 mm to 360 mm
Dry months121
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
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rainfall, mm
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Daylight, hours per day
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubai
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. Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubaiJakarta
Denpasar (Bali)DPS
9 h 30 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 50 m
€129-136
CGK · 20 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
7 h 10 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€120-134
CGK · 20 km
RiyadhRUH
1 h 40 m
€106-123
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
JeddahJED
2 h 40 m
€154-180
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 15 m
€175-294
DXB · 7 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
7 h 35 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
MumbaiBOM, NMI
2 h 55 m
€201-238
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
6 h 10 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
6 h 45 m
€334-439
DXB · 7 km
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
CairoCAI, SPX, CCE
3 h 30 m
€196-225
DXB · 7 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
MuscatMCT
1 h 5 m
€87-98
DXB · 7 km
8 h 0 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

MeasureDubaiJakarta
Official languageArabicIndonesian
CurrencyUAE Dirham (AED)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCG220 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m91 m
Main airportDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubaiJakarta
City population3,944,75111,135,191
People per km²16,821
Museums within 10 km1444
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre5235
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.