VacationSelector

Jakarta or Kyoto?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Kyoto
✓ 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.

JakartaKyoto
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 44 points.44
JakartaKyoto
Score6117
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km50
Coast distance8 km47 km
Water distance8 km47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 28 points.28
JakartaKyoto
Score5684
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9085,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1622
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 44 points.44
JakartaKyoto
Score2872
Museums within 10 km26132
Museums within 2 km of centre1051
Share of museums within 2 km %3839
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 23 points.23
JakartaKyoto
Score5780
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0463,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3722,363
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3673
Nightclubs within 4 km1026
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 32 points.32
JakartaKyoto
Score5422
Protected land share 50 km %2
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %72100
Park area within 2 km56 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 33 points.33
JakartaKyoto
Score3366
Tourist attractions within 2 km262
Park area within 2 km56 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Kyoto leads by 5 points.5
JakartaKyoto
Score4752
Notable places within 2 km5879
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 23 points.23
JakartaKyoto
Score9370
Price level global29.962.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Kyoto leads by 1 points.1
JakartaKyoto
Score6162
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C8.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm40 mm to 232 mm
Dry months10
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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J
A
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Daytime high, °C
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Kyoto
9
9
13
20
24
27
31
32
28
22
17
11
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaKyoto
SeoulICN, GMP
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 81 km
TokyoHND, NRT
7 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 39 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
2 h 0 m
€120-134
CGK · 20 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 20 m
€217-232
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 81 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
1 h 40 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
6 h 25 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
5 h 55 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 81 km
Hong KongHKG
4 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
3 h 35 m
€254-314
KIX · 81 km
ManilaMNL
3 h 55 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
Abu DhabiAUH
8 h 25 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
9 h 40 m
€810-860
3 stops
KIX · 81 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureJakartaKyoto
Official languageIndonesianJapanese
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation91 m51 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaKyoto
City population11,135,1911,463,723
People per km²16,8211,768
Museums within 10 km4476
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre3589
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.