VacationSelector

Jakarta or New Orleans?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

New Orleans
47
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

JakartaNew Orleans
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 22 points.22
JakartaNew Orleans
Score6139
Swim season months127
Beaches 10 km53
Coast distance8 km21 km
Water distance8 km17 km
Places to eat. New Orleans leads by 5 points.5
JakartaNew Orleans
Score5661
Restaurants within 2 km of centre908803
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1625
Museums & heritage. New Orleans leads by 17 points.17
JakartaNew Orleans
Score2845
Museums within 10 km2642
Museums within 2 km of centre1030
Share of museums within 2 km %3871
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 3 points.3
JakartaNew Orleans
Score5754
Drinking venues within 4 km1,046704
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372495
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3670
Nightclubs within 4 km1041
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 29 points.29
JakartaNew Orleans
Score5425
Protected land share 50 km %—4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7289
Park area within 2 km56 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. New Orleans leads by 13 points.13
JakartaNew Orleans
Score3346
Tourist attractions within 2 km222
Park area within 2 km56 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Jakarta leads by 7 points.7
JakartaNew Orleans
Score4740
Notable places within 2 km5840
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 50 points.50
JakartaNew Orleans
Score9343
Price level global29.9100
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. New Orleans leads by 7 points.7
JakartaNew Orleans
Score6168
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C17.1 °C to 33 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm94 mm to 194 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
New Orleans
17
19
23
26
30
32
33
33
31
27
22
18
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
New Orleans
14
15
18
22
25
29
30
30
28
24
20
16
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
New Orleans
132
104
111
132
143
194
169
180
128
94
98
123
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
New Orleans
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
New Orleans
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). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

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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 centre90 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre3539
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months7 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.