VacationSelector

Jakarta or Philadelphia?

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

Your match

Jakarta
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat 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.

JakartaPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 61 points.61
JakartaPhiladelphia
Score610
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km51
Coast distance8 km13 km
Water distance8 km
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 21 points.21
JakartaPhiladelphia
Score5677
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9081,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1635
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 32 points.32
JakartaPhiladelphia
Score2860
Museums within 10 km2689
Museums within 2 km of centre1048
Share of museums within 2 km %3854
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 2 points.2
JakartaPhiladelphia
Score5759
Drinking venues within 4 km1,046930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3662
Nightclubs within 4 km1041
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 5 points.5
JakartaPhiladelphia
Score5449
Protected land share 50 km %14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7289
Park area within 2 km56 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 20 points.20
JakartaPhiladelphia
Score3353
Tourist attractions within 2 km216
Park area within 2 km56 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 7 points.7
JakartaPhiladelphia
Score4754
Notable places within 2 km5888
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 50 points.50
JakartaPhiladelphia
Score9343
Price level global29.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Jakarta leads by 1 points.1
JakartaPhiladelphia
Score6160
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm69 mm to 112 mm
Dry months10
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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaPhiladelphia
TokyoHND, NRT
7 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 140 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
1 h 40 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
18 h 45 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
SeoulICN, GMP
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
JeddahJED
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
12 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DohaDOH
8 h 45 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
PHL · 11 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureJakartaPhiladelphia
Official languageIndonesian
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation91 m12 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaPhiladelphia
City population11,135,1911,603,797
People per km²16,8214,339
Museums within 10 km4454
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3575
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. 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.