VacationSelector

Jakarta or Miami?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Jakarta
54
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

Miami
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

JakartaMiami
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 34 points.34
JakartaMiami
Score6195
Swim season months1212
Beaches 10 km520
Coast distance8 km1 km
Water distance8 km1 km
Places to eat. Miami leads by 9 points.9
JakartaMiami
Score5665
Restaurants within 2 km of centre908898
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1629
Museums & heritage. Jakarta leads by 5 points.5
JakartaMiami
Score2823
Museums within 10 km2628
Museums within 2 km of centre106
Share of museums within 2 km %3821
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 7 points.7
JakartaMiami
Score5750
Drinking venues within 4 km1,046538
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372287
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3653
Nightclubs within 4 km1063
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 18 points.18
JakartaMiami
Score5472
Protected land share 50 km %16
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7248
Park area within 2 km56 hectares50 hectares
Good for families. Miami leads by 11 points.11
JakartaMiami
Score3344
Tourist attractions within 2 km214
Park area within 2 km56 hectares50 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Jakarta leads by 5 points.5
JakartaMiami
Score4742
Notable places within 2 km5845
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 50 points.50
JakartaMiami
Score9343
Price level global29.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 13 points.13
JakartaMiami
Score6174
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C24.7 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm47 mm to 267 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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Daytime high, °C
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Miami
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaMiami
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 20 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureJakartaMiami
Official languageIndonesian
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation91 m2 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaMiami
City population11,135,191442,241
People per km²16,8213,046
Museums within 10 km4417
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3539
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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.