VacationSelector

Jakarta or Manchester?

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 value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Manchester
47
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat 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.

JakartaManchester
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 33 points.33
JakartaManchester
Score6128
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km510
Coast distance8 km27 km
Water distance8 km27 km
Places to eat. Manchester leads by 12 points.12
JakartaManchester
Score5668
Restaurants within 2 km of centre908853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1635
Museums & heritage. Manchester leads by 14 points.14
JakartaManchester
Score2842
Museums within 10 km2623
Museums within 2 km of centre1011
Share of museums within 2 km %3848
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Manchester leads by 5 points.5
JakartaManchester
Score5762
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0461,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372792
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3677
Nightclubs within 4 km1082
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 18 points.18
JakartaManchester
Score5436
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %7299
Park area within 2 km56 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Jakarta leads by 1 points.1
JakartaManchester
Score3332
Tourist attractions within 2 km25
Park area within 2 km56 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Manchester leads by 1 points.1
JakartaManchester
Score4748
Notable places within 2 km5861
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 39 points.39
JakartaManchester
Score9354
Price level global29.984.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Jakarta leads by 7 points.7
JakartaManchester
Score6154
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm51 mm to 95 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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
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D
Daytime high, °C
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Manchester
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Manchester
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Manchester
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Manchester
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Manchester
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
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). Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaManchester
SingaporeSIN, XSP
1 h 40 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 20 m
€217-232
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
JeddahJED
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
MAN · 15 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
6 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 15 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

MeasureJakartaManchester
Official languageIndonesianEnglish
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation91 m38 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre210 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaManchester
City population11,135,191547,627
People per km²16,8214,737
Museums within 10 km4428
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3563
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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.