VacationSelector

Ghent or Jakarta?

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

Your match

Ghent
50
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

GhentJakarta
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 35 points.35
GhentJakarta
Score2661
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km85
Coast distance32 km8 km
Water distance32 km8 km
Places to eat. Ghent leads by 14 points.14
GhentJakarta
Score7056
Restaurants within 2 km of centre764908
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4916
Museums & heritage. Ghent leads by 30 points.30
GhentJakarta
Score5828
Museums within 10 km2426
Museums within 2 km of centre2010
Share of museums within 2 km %8338
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 8 points.8
GhentJakarta
Score4957
Drinking venues within 4 km5701,046
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre446372
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7836
Nightclubs within 4 km2610
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 20 points.20
GhentJakarta
Score3454
Protected land share 50 km %7—
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %8772
Park area within 2 km84 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Ghent leads by 17 points.17
GhentJakarta
Score5033
Tourist attractions within 2 km192
Park area within 2 km84 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Jakarta leads by 1 points.1
GhentJakarta
Score4647
Notable places within 2 km5558
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 33 points.33
GhentJakarta
Score6093
Price level global76.229.9
Daily budget€180—
Year-round weather. Jakarta leads by 5 points.5
GhentJakarta
Score5661
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C30.5 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm39 mm to 360 mm
Dry months11
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
Ghent
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Ghent
6
6
6
9
12
16
18
19
18
15
11
8
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rainfall, mm
Ghent
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Daylight, hours per day
Ghent
9
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
Ghent
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
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. Ghent: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (44.9 km from centre). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGhentJakarta
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 56 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
13 h 5 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
3 h 20 m
€217-232
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
DohaDOH
6 h 25 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
JeddahJED
5 h 50 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 56 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
50 m
no fares
BRU · 56 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 2026-08 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

MeasureGhentJakarta
Official languageFrench, German, DutchIndonesian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation12 m91 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureGhentJakarta
City population272,65711,135,191
People per km²1,72816,821
Museums within 10 km3044
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre8335
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. 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. 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.