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Jakarta or Marseille?

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 value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Marseille
✓ Best match
57
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.

JakartaMarseille
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 6 points.6
JakartaMarseille
Score6167
Swim season months122
Beaches 10 km564
Coast distance8 km0 km
Water distance8 km0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 19 points.19
JakartaMarseille
Score5675
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9081,320
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1639
Museums & heritage. Marseille leads by 22 points.22
JakartaMarseille
Score2850
Museums within 10 km2633
Museums within 2 km of centre1023
Share of museums within 2 km %3870
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 9 points.9
JakartaMarseille
Score5748
Drinking venues within 4 km1,046544
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372454
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3683
Nightclubs within 4 km1030
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 17 points.17
JakartaMarseille
Score5437
Protected land share 50 km %15
Landscape blanket share 50 km %013
Land share of disc %7256
Park area within 2 km56 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Marseille leads by 11 points.11
JakartaMarseille
Score3344
Tourist attractions within 2 km217
Park area within 2 km56 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Marseille leads by 11 points.11
JakartaMarseille
Score4758
Notable places within 2 km58111
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 31 points.31
JakartaMarseille
Score9362
Price level global29.973.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 14 points.14
JakartaMarseille
Score6175
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C11.8 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm11 mm to 82 mm
Dry months16
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
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D
Daytime high, °C
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Marseille
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
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). Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaMarseille
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
SeoulICN, GMP
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
JeddahJED
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
MedinaMED
10 h 5 m
€550-674
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 21 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

MeasureJakartaMarseille
Official languageIndonesianFrench
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation91 m0 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaMarseille
City population11,135,191886,040
People per km²16,8213,683
Museums within 10 km4427
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3593
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months2 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.