VacationSelector

Jakarta or Melbourne?

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.

Melbourne
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage 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.

JakartaMelbourne
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 6 points.6
JakartaMelbourne
Score6155
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km519
Coast distance8 km4 km
Water distance8 km4 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 19 points.19
JakartaMelbourne
Score5675
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9081,888
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1629
Museums & heritage. Melbourne leads by 21 points.21
JakartaMelbourne
Score2849
Museums within 10 km2642
Museums within 2 km of centre1024
Share of museums within 2 km %3857
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 17 points.17
JakartaMelbourne
Score5774
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0461,921
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3721,200
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3662
Nightclubs within 4 km10124
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 11 points.11
JakartaMelbourne
Score5443
Protected land share 50 km %—6
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7281
Park area within 2 km56 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 27 points.27
JakartaMelbourne
Score3360
Tourist attractions within 2 km226
Park area within 2 km56 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 10 points.10
JakartaMelbourne
Score4757
Notable places within 2 km58103
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 43 points.43
JakartaMelbourne
Score9350
Price level global29.990.2
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 15 points.15
JakartaMelbourne
Score6176
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C13.6 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm45 mm to 69 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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M
A
M
J
J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaMelbourne
Denpasar (Bali)DPS
1 h 50 m
€129-136
CGK · 20 km
5 h 50 m
€420-587
MEL · 19 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
2 h 0 m
€120-134
CGK · 20 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
1 h 40 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 20 m
€217-232
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
9 h 15 m
€407-480
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
TokyoHND, NRT
7 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
10 h 15 m
€809-850
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
SydneySYD, WSI
7 h 10 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
1 h 30 m
€119-126
MEL · 19 km
Hong KongHKG
4 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
Ho Chi Minh CitySGN
2 h 55 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
DohaDOH
8 h 45 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
14 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 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 2026-08 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

MeasureJakartaMelbourne
Official languageIndonesianEnglish
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation91 m31 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaMelbourne
City population11,135,1915,350,705
People per km²16,821535
Museums within 10 km4442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3586
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.