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The Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta
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Photos: Jakarta by Antonyus Bunjamin, Pexels License.

Jakarta or La Paz?

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

  • families
  • wellness
  • food and drink

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

Choose La Paz for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on La Paz’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, La Paz 3: Jakarta leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Jakarta 78, La Paz 50: Jakarta leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Jakarta 48, La Paz 52: La Paz leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Jakarta 66, La Paz 38: Jakarta leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Jakarta 30, La Paz 82: La Paz leads by 52 points.
Day trips. Jakarta 45, La Paz 40: Jakarta leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Jakarta 50, La Paz 10: Jakarta leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Jakarta 36, La Paz 45: La Paz leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Jakarta 64, La Paz 45: Jakarta leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Jakarta 80, La Paz 92: La Paz leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Jakarta 42, La Paz 35: Jakarta leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Jakarta 46, La Paz 12: Jakarta leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Jakarta and La Paz.

Your match

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

Jakarta
Best match
51match

Wins on families and wellness with your weighting.

La Paz
42match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices 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

La Paz in July

13 °Cdaytime high
-2 °Cnight-time low
16 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

La Paz has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). La Paz: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureJakartaLa Paz
Official languageIndonesianSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, Guarani
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Boliviano (BOB)
SocketsCF50 HzAC50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-4
Emergency number112911
Elevation91 m3,640 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre89 non-stop destinationsEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaLa Paz
City population11,135,191755,732
People per km²16,8211,601
Museums within 10 km4421
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.