VacationSelector

Jakarta or Ottawa?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Ottawa
43
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

JakartaOttawa
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 61 points.61
JakartaOttawa
Score610
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km59
Coast distance8 km423 km
Water distance8 km—
Places to eat. Ottawa leads by 8 points.8
JakartaOttawa
Score5664
Restaurants within 2 km of centre908684
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1634
Museums & heritage. Ottawa leads by 4 points.4
JakartaOttawa
Score2832
Museums within 10 km2615
Museums within 2 km of centre108
Share of museums within 2 km %3853
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 13 points.13
JakartaOttawa
Score5744
Drinking venues within 4 km1,046432
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372303
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3670
Nightclubs within 4 km1035
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 13 points.13
JakartaOttawa
Score5441
Protected land share 50 km %—8
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %72100
Park area within 2 km56 hectares122 hectares
Good for families. Ottawa leads by 13 points.13
JakartaOttawa
Score3346
Tourist attractions within 2 km211
Park area within 2 km56 hectares122 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Ottawa leads by 3 points.3
JakartaOttawa
Score4750
Notable places within 2 km5871
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 39 points.39
JakartaOttawa
Score9354
Price level global29.984
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Jakarta leads by 8 points.8
JakartaOttawa
Score6153
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C-4.9 °C to 27 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm53 mm to 94 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
Ottawa
-5
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
14
6
-2
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Ottawa
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Ottawa
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Ottawa
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). Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre).

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Before you go

MeasureJakartaOttawa
Official languageIndonesianFrench, English
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation91 m70 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaOttawa
City population11,135,1911,017,449
People per km²16,821366
Museums within 10 km4420
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3562
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.