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The Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta
JakartaThe Istiqlal Mosque
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Jakarta by Antonyus Bunjamin, Pexels License; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Jakarta or New Orleans?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Jakarta for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Jakarta’s own page.

Choose New Orleans for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on New Orleans’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Jakarta 28, New Orleans 14: Jakarta leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Jakarta 78, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Jakarta 48, New Orleans 67: New Orleans leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Jakarta 66, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Jakarta 30, New Orleans 42: New Orleans leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Jakarta 45, New Orleans 52: New Orleans leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Jakarta 50, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Jakarta 36, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Jakarta 64, New Orleans 54: Jakarta leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Jakarta 80, New Orleans 40: Jakarta leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Jakarta 42, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Jakarta 46, New Orleans 25: Jakarta leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Jakarta and New Orleans.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Jakarta
51match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

New Orleans
Best match
54match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Jakarta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

New Orleans in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
169 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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JakartaNew Orleans

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureJakartaNew Orleans
Official languageIndonesian-
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation91 m-2 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre89 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaNew Orleans
City population11,135,191383,997
People per km²16,821423
Museums within 10 km4416
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months7 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.