VacationSelector

Jakarta or Los Angeles?

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 value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Los Angeles
53
match

Wins on year-round weather and museums & heritage with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

JakartaLos Angeles
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 32 points.32
JakartaLos Angeles
Score6129
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km50
Coast distance8 km
Water distance8 km
Beaches 25 km11
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 10 points.10
JakartaLos Angeles
Score5666
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9081,337
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1622
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 21 points.21
JakartaLos Angeles
Score2849
Museums within 10 km2669
Museums within 2 km of centre1023
Share of museums within 2 km %3833
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 3 points.3
JakartaLos Angeles
Score5754
Drinking venues within 4 km1,046660
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372432
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3665
Nightclubs within 4 km1064
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 8 points.8
JakartaLos Angeles
Score5462
Protected land share 50 km %26
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7280
Park area within 2 km56 hectares20 hectares
Good for families. Jakarta and Los Angeles are level on 33.
JakartaLos Angeles
Score3333
Tourist attractions within 2 km211
Park area within 2 km56 hectares20 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 7 points.7
JakartaLos Angeles
Score4754
Notable places within 2 km5888
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 50 points.50
JakartaLos Angeles
Score9343
Price level global29.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 26 points.26
JakartaLos Angeles
Score6187
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C18.6 °C to 24.7 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm0 mm to 76 mm
Dry months18
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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D
Daytime high, °C
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Los Angeles
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). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaLos Angeles
TokyoHND, NRT
7 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
11 h 0 m
€785-892
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
1 h 40 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
17 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 20 m
€217-232
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
16 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
SeoulICN, GMP
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
12 h 0 m
€570-646
LAX · 19 km
SydneySYD, WSI
7 h 10 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
14 h 50 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
JeddahJED
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
16 h 25 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
GuangzhouCAN
4 h 35 m
€208-270
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
14 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 20 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 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

MeasureJakartaLos Angeles
Official languageIndonesian
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation91 m106 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaLos Angeles
City population11,135,1913,898,747
People per km²16,8212,994
Museums within 10 km4438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3546
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.