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The Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta
JakartaThe Istiqlal Mosque
The Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock, Petra
PetraThe Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock

Photos: Jakarta by Antonyus Bunjamin, Pexels License; Petra by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License.

Jakarta or Petra?

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

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • shopping

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

Choose Petra for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Petra’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, Petra 5: Jakarta leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Jakarta 78, Petra 22: Jakarta leads by 56 points.
Culture & sights. Jakarta 48, Petra 85: Petra leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Jakarta 66, Petra 5: Jakarta leads by 61 points.
Nature & outdoors. Jakarta 30, Petra 78: Petra leads by 48 points.
Day trips. Jakarta 45, Petra 30: Jakarta leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Jakarta 50, Petra 25: Jakarta leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Jakarta 36, Petra 25: Jakarta leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Jakarta 64, Petra 18: Jakarta leads by 46 points.
Affordability. Jakarta 80, Petra 45: Jakarta leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Jakarta 42, Petra 10: Jakarta leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Jakarta 46, Petra 28: Jakarta leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Jakarta and Petra.

Your match

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

Jakarta
Best match
51match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink with your weighting.

Petra
31match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and culture and sights 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

Petra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine 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

Petra's temperatures are measured 34 km from the centre, at Ma'An.

Petra's station stands 219 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Petra 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). Petra: 1991-2020 normals, Ma'An (33.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureJakartaPetra
Official languageIndonesianArabic
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Jordanian Dinar (JOD)
SocketsCF50 HzBCFGJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+3
Emergency number112911
Elevation91 m850 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre89 non-stop destinationsKing Hussein International Airport (AQJ)90 km from centre5 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaPetra
City population11,135,191-
People per km²16,821-
Museums within 10 km442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.