VacationSelector

Jakarta or New York?

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 value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on places to eat 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 York
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 3 points.3
JakartaNew York
Score6164
Swim season months123
Beaches 10 km517
Coast distance8 km1 km
Water distance8 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 39 points.39
JakartaNew York
Score5695
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9086,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1638
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 32 points.32
JakartaNew York
Score2860
Museums within 10 km26119
Museums within 2 km of centre1031
Share of museums within 2 km %3826
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. New York leads by 32 points.32
JakartaNew York
Score5789
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0464,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3722,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3648
Nightclubs within 4 km10192
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 15 points.15
JakartaNew York
Score5439
Protected land share 50 km %4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7269
Park area within 2 km56 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 39 points.39
JakartaNew York
Score3372
Tourist attractions within 2 km237
Park area within 2 km56 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km57
Sights concentration. New York leads by 27 points.27
JakartaNew York
Score4774
Notable places within 2 km58268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 50 points.50
JakartaNew York
Score9343
Price level global29.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Jakarta leads by 3 points.3
JakartaNew York
Score6158
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm74 mm to 112 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 York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
New York
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 York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaNew York
TokyoHND, NRT
7 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 21 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
1 h 40 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
18 h 45 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
SeoulICN, GMP
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
JeddahJED
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 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

MeasureJakartaNew York
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 m25 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaNew York
City population11,135,1918,804,190
People per km²16,8217,256
Museums within 10 km44157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre35132
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 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.