VacationSelector

Jakarta or Madrid?

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

Your match

Jakarta
54
match

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

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
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.

JakartaMadrid
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 61 points.61
JakartaMadrid
Score610
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km54
Coast distance8 km305 km
Water distance8 km
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 27 points.27
JakartaMadrid
Score5683
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9083,508
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1628
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 47 points.47
JakartaMadrid
Score2875
Museums within 10 km2697
Museums within 2 km of centre1059
Share of museums within 2 km %3861
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 24 points.24
JakartaMadrid
Score5781
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0462,414
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3721,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3662
Nightclubs within 4 km10341
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 9 points.9
JakartaMadrid
Score5463
Protected land share 50 km %19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %72100
Park area within 2 km56 hectares187 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 44 points.44
JakartaMadrid
Score3377
Tourist attractions within 2 km261
Park area within 2 km56 hectares187 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 28 points.28
JakartaMadrid
Score4775
Notable places within 2 km58288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 22 points.22
JakartaMadrid
Score9371
Price level global29.960.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 11 points.11
JakartaMadrid
Score6172
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C10 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm9 mm to 64 mm
Dry months17
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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F
M
A
M
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J
A
S
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D
Daytime high, °C
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Madrid
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
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). Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaMadrid
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
2 h 25 m
€175-213
MAD · 14 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 20 m
€217-232
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
SeoulICN, GMP
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
12 h 25 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
TokyoHND, NRT
7 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
HaikouHAK
4 h 5 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
3 h 50 m
€182-348
MAD · 14 km
JeddahJED
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
6 h 0 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
GuangzhouCAN
4 h 35 m
€208-270
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
12 h 50 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
DohaDOH
8 h 45 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 20 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
7 h 20 m
€356-444
2 stops
MAD · 14 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

MeasureJakartaMadrid
Official languageIndonesianSpanish
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation91 m663 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaMadrid
City population11,135,1913,506,730
People per km²16,8215,801
Museums within 10 km4488
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre35106
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.