VacationSelector

Jakarta or Montpellier?

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

Your match

Jakarta
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Montpellier
47
match

Wins on year-round weather and good for families 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.

JakartaMontpellier
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 29 points.29
JakartaMontpellier
Score6132
Swim season months122
Beaches 10 km58
Coast distance8 km9 km
Water distance8 km9 km
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 9 points.9
JakartaMontpellier
Score5665
Restaurants within 2 km of centre908737
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1634
Museums & heritage. Jakarta leads by 2 points.2
JakartaMontpellier
Score2826
Museums within 10 km2614
Museums within 2 km of centre103
Share of museums within 2 km %3821
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 19 points.19
JakartaMontpellier
Score5738
Drinking venues within 4 km1,046318
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3683
Nightclubs within 4 km1025
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 11 points.11
JakartaMontpellier
Score5443
Protected land share 50 km %15
Landscape blanket share 50 km %010
Land share of disc %7270
Park area within 2 km56 hectares55 hectares
Good for families. Montpellier leads by 11 points.11
JakartaMontpellier
Score3344
Tourist attractions within 2 km28
Park area within 2 km56 hectares55 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km57
Sights concentration. Jakarta leads by 9 points.9
JakartaMontpellier
Score4738
Notable places within 2 km5835
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 31 points.31
JakartaMontpellier
Score9362
Price level global29.973.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 13 points.13
JakartaMontpellier
Score6174
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C12 °C to 29.6 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm17 mm to 93 mm
Dry months15
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
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Montpellier
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
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaMontpellier
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
SeoulICN, GMP
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
JeddahJED
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
MedinaMED
10 h 5 m
€550-674
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
MPL · 8 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

MeasureJakartaMontpellier
Official languageIndonesianFrench
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation91 m7 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaMontpellier
City population11,135,191310,240
People per km²16,8215,452
Museums within 10 km4414
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3565
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.