VacationSelector

Jakarta or Paris?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

JakartaParis
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 61 points.61
JakartaParis
Score610
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km52
Coast distance8 km149 km
Water distance8 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 34 points.34
JakartaParis
Score5690
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9084,732
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1633
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 48 points.48
JakartaParis
Score2876
Museums within 10 km26185
Museums within 2 km of centre1065
Share of museums within 2 km %3835
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Paris leads by 31 points.31
JakartaParis
Score5788
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0463,796
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3721,694
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3645
Nightclubs within 4 km10201
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 6 points.6
JakartaParis
Score5448
Protected land share 50 km %28
Landscape blanket share 50 km %026
Land share of disc %72100
Park area within 2 km56 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 42 points.42
JakartaParis
Score3375
Tourist attractions within 2 km289
Park area within 2 km56 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 47 points.47
JakartaParis
Score4794
Notable places within 2 km58865
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 31 points.31
JakartaParis
Score9362
Price level global29.973.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Paris leads by 5 points.5
JakartaParis
Score6166
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C7.8 °C to 26 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm38 mm to 75 mm
Dry months11
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Paris
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Paris
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). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaParis
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
2 h 0 m
€120-134
CGK · 20 km
12 h 55 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
TokyoHND, NRT
7 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
12 h 5 m
€705-999
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
1 h 10 m
€188-212
CDG · 22 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
1 h 40 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
SeoulICN, GMP
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
11 h 10 m
€509-719
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 20 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
3 h 15 m
€152-378
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 20 m
€217-232
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
DohaDOH
8 h 45 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
6 h 30 m
€425-436
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
JeddahJED
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
CDG · 22 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

MeasureJakartaParis
Official languageIndonesianFrench
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation91 m27 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaParis
City population11,135,1912,103,778
People per km²16,82119,960
Museums within 10 km44251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre35169
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. 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.