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The Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta
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Photos: Jakarta by Antonyus Bunjamin, Pexels License.

Jakarta or Palm Springs?

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

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

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

Choose Palm Springs for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Springs’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, Palm Springs 7: Jakarta leads by 21 points.
Food & drink. Jakarta 78, Palm Springs 40: Jakarta leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Jakarta 48, Palm Springs 42: Jakarta leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Jakarta 66, Palm Springs 36: Jakarta leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Jakarta 30, Palm Springs 78: Palm Springs leads by 48 points.
Day trips. Jakarta 45, Palm Springs 38: Jakarta leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Jakarta 50, Palm Springs 40: Jakarta leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Jakarta 36, Palm Springs 22: Jakarta leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Jakarta 64, Palm Springs 44: Jakarta leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Jakarta 80, Palm Springs 32: Jakarta leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. Jakarta 42, Palm Springs 40: Jakarta leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Jakarta 46, Palm Springs 80: Palm Springs leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Jakarta and Palm Springs.

Your match

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

Jakarta
Best match
51match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Palm Springs
42match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness 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

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Palm Springs 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureJakartaPalm Springs
Official languageIndonesian-
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation91 m146 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre89 non-stop destinationsPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaPalm Springs
City population11,135,19144,575
People per km²16,821181
Museums within 10 km443
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.