VacationSelector

Gdansk 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, 2 points apart

Gdansk
56
match

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

Jakarta
54
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

GdanskJakarta
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 6 points.6
GdanskJakarta
Score5561
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km205
Coast distance1 km8 km
Water distance1 km8 km
Places to eat. Jakarta leads by 4 points.4
GdanskJakarta
Score5256
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348908
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2816
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 29 points.29
GdanskJakarta
Score5728
Museums within 10 km4326
Museums within 2 km of centre2810
Share of museums within 2 km %6538
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 21 points.21
GdanskJakarta
Score3657
Drinking venues within 4 km2691,046
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203372
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7536
Nightclubs within 4 km3010
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 9 points.9
GdanskJakarta
Score4554
Protected land share 50 km %12—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %7072
Park area within 2 km61 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 42 points.42
GdanskJakarta
Score7533
Tourist attractions within 2 km1082
Park area within 2 km61 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km35
Sights concentration. Gdansk leads by 5 points.5
GdanskJakarta
Score5247
Notable places within 2 km7658
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 14 points.14
GdanskJakarta
Score7993
Price level global4929.9
Daily budget€133—
Year-round weather. Jakarta leads by 9 points.9
GdanskJakarta
Score5261
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C30.5 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 mm39 mm to 360 mm
Dry months31
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
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
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. Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGdanskJakarta
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
GDN · 13 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

MeasureGdanskJakarta
Official languagePolishIndonesian
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation11 m91 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskJakarta
City population487,83411,135,191
People per km²71416,821
Museums within 10 km3744
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre4835
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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.