VacationSelector

Galway or Jakarta?

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

Your match

Galway
39
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Jakarta
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

GalwayJakarta
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 10 points.10
GalwayJakarta
Score5161
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km135
Coast distance1 km8 km
Water distance1 km8 km
Places to eat. Jakarta leads by 19 points.19
GalwayJakarta
Score3756
Restaurants within 2 km of centre173908
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2016
Museums & heritage. Jakarta leads by 8 points.8
GalwayJakarta
Score2028
Museums within 10 km526
Museums within 2 km of centre510
Share of museums within 2 km %10038
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 31 points.31
GalwayJakarta
Score2657
Drinking venues within 4 km1851,046
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre153372
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8336
Nightclubs within 4 km810
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 1 points.1
GalwayJakarta
Score5554
Protected land share 50 km %——
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8572
Park area within 2 km65 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Jakarta leads by 8 points.8
GalwayJakarta
Score2533
Tourist attractions within 2 km52
Park area within 2 km65 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km05
Sights concentration. Jakarta leads by 25 points.25
GalwayJakarta
Score2247
Notable places within 2 km1458
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 36 points.36
GalwayJakarta
Score5793
Price level global80.229.9
Daily budget€187—
Year-round weather. Jakarta leads by 7 points.7
GalwayJakarta
Score5461
Monthly daytime high8.9 °C to 19.6 °C30.5 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall63 mm to 113 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
Galway
9
10
11
14
16
19
20
19
18
14
11
9
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rainfall, mm
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Daylight, hours per day
Galway
8
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
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
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. Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

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Before you go

MeasureGalwayJakarta
Official languageEnglish, IrishIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation25 m91 m
Main airportShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureGalwayJakarta
City population83,45611,135,191
People per km²1,56316,821
Museums within 10 km444
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2535
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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.