VacationSelector

Jakarta or Lima?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Jakarta
54
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Lima
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather 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.

JakartaLima
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 24 points.24
JakartaLima
Score6137
Swim season months122
Beaches 10 km512
Coast distance8 km6 km
Water distance8 km6 km
Places to eat. Jakarta leads by 4 points.4
JakartaLima
Score5652
Restaurants within 2 km of centre908796
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1614
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 36 points.36
JakartaLima
Score2864
Museums within 10 km2689
Museums within 2 km of centre1047
Share of museums within 2 km %3853
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 12 points.12
JakartaLima
Score5745
Drinking venues within 4 km1,046409
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372177
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3643
Nightclubs within 4 km1063
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 27 points.27
JakartaLima
Score5427
Protected land share 50 km %2
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7251
Park area within 2 km56 hectares54 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 23 points.23
JakartaLima
Score3356
Tourist attractions within 2 km225
Park area within 2 km56 hectares54 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Jakarta leads by 1 points.1
JakartaLima
Score4746
Notable places within 2 km5854
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 13 points.13
JakartaLima
Score9380
Price level global29.947.7
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 31 points.31
JakartaLima
Score6192
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C18.6 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm0 mm to 1 mm
Dry months112
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
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaLima
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 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

MeasureJakartaLima
Official languageIndonesianSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Sol (PEN)
SocketsCF50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5
Emergency number112111 or 911
Elevation91 m154 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaLima
City population11,135,1919,943,800
People per km²16,8213,721
Museums within 10 km4446
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3533
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months2 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.