VacationSelector

Geneva or Jakarta?

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

Your match

Geneva
50
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage 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.

GenevaJakarta
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 61 points.61
GenevaJakarta
Score061
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km435
Coast distance279 km8 km
Water distance8 km
Places to eat. Geneva leads by 14 points.14
GenevaJakarta
Score7056
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,028908
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3516
Museums & heritage. Geneva leads by 24 points.24
GenevaJakarta
Score5228
Museums within 10 km3526
Museums within 2 km of centre2010
Share of museums within 2 km %5738
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 7 points.7
GenevaJakarta
Score5057
Drinking venues within 4 km5491,046
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427372
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7836
Nightclubs within 4 km6010
Nature & day trips. Geneva leads by 5 points.5
GenevaJakarta
Score5954
Protected land share 50 km %27
Landscape blanket share 50 km %210
Land share of disc %10072
Park area within 2 km182 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Geneva leads by 32 points.32
GenevaJakarta
Score6533
Tourist attractions within 2 km282
Park area within 2 km182 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Geneva leads by 9 points.9
GenevaJakarta
Score5647
Notable places within 2 km9958
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 58 points.58
GenevaJakarta
Score3593
Price level global110.529.9
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Jakarta leads by 2 points.2
GenevaJakarta
Score5961
Monthly daytime high5.1 °C to 26.8 °C30.5 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 94 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
Geneva
5
7
12
16
20
24
27
26
21
16
9
6
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Geneva
No coastline within reach
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rainfall, mm
Geneva
71
55
61
66
77
81
77
80
87
94
87
88
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Daylight, hours per day
Geneva
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Geneva
2
3
6
6
7
8
9
8
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. Geneva: 1991-2020 normals, Geneve-Cointrin (5.7 km from centre). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenevaJakarta
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€160-186
GVA · 5 km
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€147-338
GVA · 5 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€318-351
1 stop
GVA · 5 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
JeddahJED
5 h 25 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
MedinaMED
5 h 15 m
no fares
LYS · 97 km
10 h 5 m
€550-674
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
DohaDOH
6 h 5 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
Addis AbabaADD
6 h 45 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
Abu DhabiAUH
6 h 30 m
no fares
GVA · 5 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 5 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 2026-09 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

MeasureGenevaJakarta
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshIndonesian
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation403 m91 m
Main airportGeneva International Airport (GVA)5 km from centre140 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenevaJakarta
City population209,06111,135,191
People per km²13,14816,821
Museums within 10 km3544
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre8035
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.