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The Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta
JakartaThe Istiqlal Mosque
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: Jakarta by Antonyus Bunjamin, Pexels License; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Jakarta or Marmaris?

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

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Marmaris for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Marmaris’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, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Jakarta 78, Marmaris 40: Jakarta leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Jakarta 48, Marmaris 18: Jakarta leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Jakarta 66, Marmaris 60: Jakarta leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Jakarta 30, Marmaris 72: Marmaris leads by 42 points.
Day trips. Jakarta 45, Marmaris 65: Marmaris leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Jakarta 50, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Jakarta 36, Marmaris 55: Marmaris leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Jakarta 64, Marmaris 38: Jakarta leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Jakarta 80, Marmaris 62: Jakarta leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Jakarta 42, Marmaris 12: Jakarta leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Jakarta 46, Marmaris 50: Marmaris leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Jakarta and Marmaris.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Jakarta
51match

Wins on food and drink and culture and sights with your weighting.

Marmaris
51match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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

Marmaris in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
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

Marmaris's temperatures are measured 49 km from the centre, at Dalaman.

Marmaris 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). Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureJakartaMarmaris
Official languageIndonesianTurkish
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCF50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation91 m7 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre89 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaMarmaris
City population11,135,19197,818
People per km²16,821111
Museums within 10 km441
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.