VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Jakarta?

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

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on places to eat and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Jakarta
54
match

Wins on 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.

Hong KongJakarta
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 26 points.26
Hong KongJakarta
Score8761
Swim season months812
Beaches 10 km655
Coast distance0 km8 km
Water distance0 km8 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 32 points.32
Hong KongJakarta
Score8856
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,325908
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3216
Museums & heritage. Hong Kong leads by 8 points.8
Hong KongJakarta
Score3628
Museums within 10 km5026
Museums within 2 km of centre1710
Share of museums within 2 km %3438
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 14 points.14
Hong KongJakarta
Score7157
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9481,046
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154372
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5936
Nightclubs within 4 km3710
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 10 points.10
Hong KongJakarta
Score6454
Protected land share 50 km %8
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %2972
Park area within 2 km52 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 25 points.25
Hong KongJakarta
Score5833
Tourist attractions within 2 km272
Park area within 2 km52 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km55
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 22 points.22
Hong KongJakarta
Score6947
Notable places within 2 km20458
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 30 points.30
Hong KongJakarta
Score6393
Price level global7229.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 13 points.13
Hong KongJakarta
Score7461
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C30.5 °C to 33.3 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm39 mm to 360 mm
Dry months41
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromHong KongJakarta
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
3 h 40 m
€202-224
HKG · 25 km
2 h 0 m
€120-134
CGK · 20 km
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 5 m
€279-371
HKG · 25 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 5 m
€168-188
HKG · 25 km
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
2 h 40 m
€170-184
HKG · 25 km
3 h 20 m
€217-232
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
Denpasar (Bali)DPS
4 h 45 m
€330-393
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
1 h 50 m
€129-136
CGK · 20 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€147-156
HKG · 25 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
3 h 40 m
€246-288
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
3 h 0 m
€127-156
HKG · 25 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
8 h 20 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 2026-08 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

MeasureHong KongJakarta
Official languageStandard ChineseIndonesian
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+7
Emergency number999112
Elevation7 m91 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongJakarta
City population7,413,07011,135,191
People per km²16,821
Museums within 10 km3944
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre7635
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months12 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). 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.