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The Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta
JakartaThe Istiqlal Mosque
The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple

Photos: Jakarta by Antonyus Bunjamin, Pexels License; Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Jakarta or Luxor?

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

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • shopping

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

Choose Luxor for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Luxor’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, Luxor 6: Jakarta leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Jakarta 78, Luxor 30: Jakarta leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Jakarta 48, Luxor 95: Luxor leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Jakarta 66, Luxor 10: Jakarta leads by 56 points.
Nature & outdoors. Jakarta 30, Luxor 32: Luxor leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Jakarta 45, Luxor 62: Luxor leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Jakarta 50, Luxor 30: Jakarta leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Jakarta 36, Luxor 35: Jakarta leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Jakarta 64, Luxor 25: Jakarta leads by 39 points.
Affordability. Jakarta 80, Luxor 90: Luxor leads by 10 points.
Live music & performing arts. Jakarta 42, Luxor 10: Jakarta leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Jakarta 46, Luxor 28: Jakarta leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Jakarta and Luxor.

Your match

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

Jakarta
Best match
51match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink with your weighting.

Luxor
38match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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

Luxor in July

41 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Luxor has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureJakartaLuxor
Official languageIndonesianArabic
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsCF50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation91 m89 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre89 non-stop destinationsLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-15 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaLuxor
City population11,135,191202,232
People per km²16,821486
Museums within 10 km444
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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.