VacationSelector

Jakarta or Krakow?

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

Your match

Jakarta
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Krakow
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

JakartaKrakow
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 61 points.61
JakartaKrakow
Score610
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km59
Coast distance8 km456 km
Water distance8 km
Places to eat. Krakow leads by 12 points.12
JakartaKrakow
Score5668
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9081,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1630
Museums & heritage. Krakow leads by 47 points.47
JakartaKrakow
Score2875
Museums within 10 km2684
Museums within 2 km of centre1069
Share of museums within 2 km %3882
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Jakarta and Krakow are level on 57.
JakartaKrakow
Score5757
Drinking venues within 4 km1,046836
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372697
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3683
Nightclubs within 4 km1054
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 8 points.8
JakartaKrakow
Score5446
Protected land share 50 km %14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %72100
Park area within 2 km56 hectares79 hectares
Good for families. Krakow leads by 41 points.41
JakartaKrakow
Score3374
Tourist attractions within 2 km277
Park area within 2 km56 hectares79 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Krakow leads by 21 points.21
JakartaKrakow
Score4768
Notable places within 2 km58198
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 14 points.14
JakartaKrakow
Score9379
Price level global29.949
Daily budget€133
Year-round weather. Jakarta leads by 3 points.3
JakartaKrakow
Score6158
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C1.5 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm31 mm to 100 mm
Dry months14
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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D
Daytime high, °C
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Krakow
2
4
8
15
20
23
25
25
19
14
8
3
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Krakow
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Krakow
38
31
38
47
79
77
100
75
67
51
41
35
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Krakow
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Krakow
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaKrakow
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 20 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
KRK · 11 km
ColomboCMB
4 h 35 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
KTW · 76 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

MeasureJakartaKrakow
Official languageIndonesianPolish
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation91 m219 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre133 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaKrakow
City population11,135,191804,237
People per km²16,8212,459
Museums within 10 km44114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre3568
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. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.