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The Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta
JakartaThe Istiqlal Mosque
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Jakarta by Antonyus Bunjamin, Pexels License; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Jakarta or Krabi?

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 Jakarta for

  • shopping
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Krabi for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Krabi’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. Jakarta 28, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 59 points.
Food & drink. Jakarta 78, Krabi 50: Jakarta leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Jakarta 48, Krabi 20: Jakarta leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Jakarta 66, Krabi 33: Jakarta leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Jakarta 30, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 55 points.
Day trips. Jakarta 45, Krabi 40: Jakarta leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Jakarta 50, Krabi 55: Krabi leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Jakarta 36, Krabi 30: Jakarta leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Jakarta 64, Krabi 20: Jakarta leads by 44 points.
Affordability. Jakarta 80, Krabi 78: Jakarta leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Jakarta 42, Krabi 12: Jakarta leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Jakarta 46, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Jakarta and Krabi.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Jakarta
51match

Wins on shopping and nightlife with your weighting.

Krabi
49match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Krabi in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
212 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Krabi's temperatures are measured 67 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Krabi 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureJakartaKrabi
Official languageIndonesianThai
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Baht (THB)
SocketsCF50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+7
Emergency number112Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation91 m16 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre89 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaKrabi
City population11,135,19130,499
People per km²16,821-
Museums within 10 km440
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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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). 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.