VacationSelector

Jakarta or Maastricht?

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

Your match

Jakarta
✓ Best match
54
match

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

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

JakartaMaastricht
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 61 points.61
JakartaMaastricht
Score610
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km56
Coast distance8 km118 km
Water distance8 km
Places to eat. Jakarta leads by 8 points.8
JakartaMaastricht
Score5648
Restaurants within 2 km of centre908338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1622
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 25 points.25
JakartaMaastricht
Score2853
Museums within 10 km2623
Museums within 2 km of centre1013
Share of museums within 2 km %3857
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 27 points.27
JakartaMaastricht
Score5730
Drinking venues within 4 km1,046223
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372182
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3682
Nightclubs within 4 km1013
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 17 points.17
JakartaMaastricht
Score5437
Protected land share 50 km %19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %011
Land share of disc %72100
Park area within 2 km56 hectares33 hectares
Good for families. Maastricht leads by 13 points.13
JakartaMaastricht
Score3346
Tourist attractions within 2 km215
Park area within 2 km56 hectares33 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km55
Sights concentration. Jakarta leads by 11 points.11
JakartaMaastricht
Score4736
Notable places within 2 km5832
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 35 points.35
JakartaMaastricht
Score9358
Price level global29.979.2
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Jakarta leads by 2 points.2
JakartaMaastricht
Score6159
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C5.7 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm41 mm to 84 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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Daytime high, °C
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Maastricht
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
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). Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaMaastricht
SingaporeSIN, XSP
1 h 40 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
6 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 20 m
€217-232
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
TokyoHND, NRT
7 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
JeddahJED
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
GuangzhouCAN
4 h 35 m
€208-270
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
LUX · 141 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
50 m
no fares
BRU · 85 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

MeasureJakartaMaastricht
Official languageIndonesianDutch
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation91 m49 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaMaastricht
City population11,135,191120,227
People per km²16,8212,000
Museums within 10 km4421
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre3533
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.