VacationSelector

Faro or Jakarta?

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

Your match

Faro
47
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Jakarta
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration 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.

FaroJakarta
Beaches & swimming. Faro and Jakarta are level on 61.
FaroJakarta
Score6161
Swim season months312
Beaches 10 km135
Coast distance0 km8 km
Water distance0 km8 km
Places to eat. Jakarta leads by 12 points.12
FaroJakarta
Score4456
Restaurants within 2 km of centre255908
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2216
Museums & heritage. Jakarta leads by 6 points.6
FaroJakarta
Score2228
Museums within 10 km926
Museums within 2 km of centre810
Share of museums within 2 km %8938
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 36 points.36
FaroJakarta
Score2157
Drinking venues within 4 km1431,046
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123372
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8636
Nightclubs within 4 km810
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 3 points.3
FaroJakarta
Score5754
Protected land share 50 km %11
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4272
Park area within 2 km34 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Faro leads by 3 points.3
FaroJakarta
Score3633
Tourist attractions within 2 km102
Park area within 2 km34 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Jakarta leads by 25 points.25
FaroJakarta
Score2247
Notable places within 2 km1458
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 19 points.19
FaroJakarta
Score7493
Price level global55.929.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 22 points.22
FaroJakarta
Score8361
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C30.5 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm39 mm to 360 mm
Dry months61
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
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. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroJakarta
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 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

MeasureFaroJakarta
Official languagePortugueseIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m91 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroJakarta
City population64,56011,135,191
People per km²31916,821
Museums within 10 km244
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3435
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.