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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
The Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta
JakartaThe Istiqlal Mosque

Photos: Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Jakarta by Antonyus Bunjamin, Pexels License.

Glasgow or Jakarta?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Glasgow for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Glasgow’s own page.

Choose Jakarta for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Jakarta’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Glasgow 14, Jakarta 28: Jakarta leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Glasgow 52, Jakarta 78: Jakarta leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Glasgow 62, Jakarta 48: Glasgow leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Glasgow and Jakarta are level on 66.
Nature & outdoors. Glasgow 75, Jakarta 30: Glasgow leads by 45 points.
Day trips. Glasgow 76, Jakarta 45: Glasgow leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Glasgow 58, Jakarta 50: Glasgow leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Glasgow 66, Jakarta 36: Glasgow leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Glasgow and Jakarta are level on 64.
Affordability. Glasgow 46, Jakarta 80: Jakarta leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Glasgow 72, Jakarta 42: Glasgow leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Glasgow 28, Jakarta 46: Jakarta leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Glasgow and Jakarta.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Glasgow
Best match
57match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Jakarta
51match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Glasgow in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Jakarta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Glasgow has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Glasgow's sunshine is measured 90 km from the centre, at Eskdalemuir.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGlasgowJakarta
Official languageEnglishIndonesian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m91 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre89 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days-

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowJakarta
City population626,41011,135,191
People per km²19016,821
Museums within 10 km2944
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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Sources

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. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.