VacationSelector

Jakarta or Mexico City?

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.

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather 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.

JakartaMexico City
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 61 points.61
JakartaMexico City
Score610
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km54
Coast distance8 km247 km
Water distance8 km
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 10 points.10
JakartaMexico City
Score5666
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9082,179
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1615
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 51 points.51
JakartaMexico City
Score2879
Museums within 10 km26138
Museums within 2 km of centre1065
Share of museums within 2 km %3847
Unesco sites within 50 km06
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 21 points.21
JakartaMexico City
Score5778
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0462,156
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372926
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3643
Nightclubs within 4 km10198
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 9 points.9
JakartaMexico City
Score5463
Protected land share 50 km %30
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %72100
Park area within 2 km56 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Mexico City leads by 17 points.17
JakartaMexico City
Score3350
Tourist attractions within 2 km223
Park area within 2 km56 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 7 points.7
JakartaMexico City
Score4754
Notable places within 2 km5888
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 17 points.17
JakartaMexico City
Score9376
Price level global29.954.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 29 points.29
JakartaMexico City
Score6190
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C22.2 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm3 mm to 186 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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Daytime high, °C
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaMexico City
SeoulICN, GMP
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
14 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
TokyoHND, NRT
7 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
14 h 0 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 20 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
6 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
15 h 20 m
€1,089-1205
3 stops
MEX · 7 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureJakartaMexico City
Official languageIndonesianSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation91 m2,240 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaMexico City
City population11,135,1919,209,944
People per km²16,8216,202
Museums within 10 km44108
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km06
Distinct cuisines in the centre3550
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. 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.