VacationSelector
The Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta
JakartaThe Istiqlal Mosque
Palermo Cathedral, Palermo
PalermoPalermo Cathedral

Photos: Jakarta by Antonyus Bunjamin, Pexels License; Palermo by Antonino Giangrasso, Pexels License.

Jakarta or Palermo?

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

  • shopping
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose Palermo for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Palermo’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, Palermo 77: Palermo leads by 49 points.
Food & drink. Jakarta 78, Palermo 81: Palermo leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Jakarta 48, Palermo 80: Palermo leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Jakarta 66, Palermo 58: Jakarta leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Jakarta 30, Palermo 72: Palermo leads by 42 points.
Day trips. Jakarta 45, Palermo 84: Palermo leads by 39 points.
Good for families. Jakarta 50, Palermo 44: Jakarta leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Jakarta 36, Palermo 50: Palermo leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Jakarta 64, Palermo 44: Jakarta leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Jakarta 80, Palermo 63: Jakarta leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Jakarta 42, Palermo 62: Palermo leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Jakarta 46, Palermo 30: Jakarta leads by 16 points.
0255075100

What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Jakarta and Palermo.

Your match

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

Jakarta
51match

Wins on shopping and prices with your weighting.

Palermo
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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

Palermo in July

29 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

0°10°20°30°40°JFMAMJJASOND

Rainfall in the month, mm

0100200300400JFMAMJJASOND
JakartaPalermo

Where the figures come from

Palermo has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Palermo's sunshine is measured 67 km from the centre, at Ustica.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Palermo: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Palermo / Punta Raisi (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureJakartaPalermo
Official languageIndonesianItalian
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation91 m14 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre89 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre106 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaPalermo
City population11,135,191630,167
People per km²16,8213,924
Museums within 10 km4442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Jakarta or Palermo somewhere new.

Browse every destination

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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.