VacationSelector

Jakarta or Lyon?

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, 2 points apart

Jakarta
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Lyon
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

JakartaLyon
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 61 points.61
JakartaLyon
Score610
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km526
Coast distance8 km253 km
Water distance8 km
Places to eat. Lyon leads by 23 points.23
JakartaLyon
Score5679
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9081,691
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1640
Museums & heritage. Lyon leads by 27 points.27
JakartaLyon
Score2855
Museums within 10 km2653
Museums within 2 km of centre1025
Share of museums within 2 km %3847
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Lyon leads by 1 points.1
JakartaLyon
Score5758
Drinking venues within 4 km1,046866
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372611
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3671
Nightclubs within 4 km1047
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 21 points.21
JakartaLyon
Score5433
Protected land share 50 km %6
Landscape blanket share 50 km %06
Land share of disc %72100
Park area within 2 km56 hectares120 hectares
Good for families. Lyon leads by 26 points.26
JakartaLyon
Score3359
Tourist attractions within 2 km225
Park area within 2 km56 hectares120 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Lyon leads by 7 points.7
JakartaLyon
Score4754
Notable places within 2 km5886
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 31 points.31
JakartaLyon
Score9362
Price level global29.973.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Lyon leads by 3 points.3
JakartaLyon
Score6164
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C7 °C to 28 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm43 mm to 101 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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D
Daytime high, °C
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Lyon
7
9
14
17
21
26
28
28
23
18
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Lyon
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Lyon
51
43
50
68
82
73
66
68
84
101
88
54
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Lyon
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Lyon
2
3
6
6
7
9
9
8
6
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Lyon: 1991-2020 normals, Lyon / Bron (10.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaLyon
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
3 h 0 m
€167-217
LYS · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 20 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
JeddahJED
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
MedinaMED
10 h 5 m
€550-674
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
LYS · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
6 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
GVA · 111 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

MeasureJakartaLyon
Official languageIndonesianFrench
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation91 m160 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsLyon Saint-Exupéry Airport (LYS)20 km from centre139 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaLyon
City population11,135,191519,127
People per km²16,82110,838
Museums within 10 km4442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre35148
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.