VacationSelector

Jakarta or Palermo?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Jakarta
54
match

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

Palermo
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather 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.

JakartaPalermo
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 6 points.6
JakartaPalermo
Score6167
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km513
Coast distance8 km1 km
Water distance8 km1 km
Places to eat. Jakarta leads by 6 points.6
JakartaPalermo
Score5650
Restaurants within 2 km of centre908807
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1613
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 22 points.22
JakartaPalermo
Score2850
Museums within 10 km2632
Museums within 2 km of centre1026
Share of museums within 2 km %3881
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 4 points.4
JakartaPalermo
Score5753
Drinking venues within 4 km1,046799
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372515
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3664
Nightclubs within 4 km1016
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 18 points.18
JakartaPalermo
Score5436
Protected land share 50 km %—4
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7245
Park area within 2 km56 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Palermo leads by 8 points.8
JakartaPalermo
Score3341
Tourist attractions within 2 km216
Park area within 2 km56 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 10 points.10
JakartaPalermo
Score4757
Notable places within 2 km58104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 25 points.25
JakartaPalermo
Score9368
Price level global29.964.9
Daily budget—€155
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 16 points.16
JakartaPalermo
Score6177
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C12.6 °C to 27.8 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm4 mm to 71 mm
Dry months17
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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaPalermo
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
2 h 15 m
€183-194
PMO · 25 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
PMO · 25 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 2026-10, 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

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 centre90 non-stop destinationsFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre3533
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.