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The Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta
JakartaThe Istiqlal Mosque
The wharf at Queenstown with the Remarkables behind, Queenstown
QueenstownThe wharf at Queenstown with the Remarkables behind

Photos: Jakarta by Antonyus Bunjamin, Pexels License; Queenstown by Robert Linsdell, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Jakarta or Queenstown?

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
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

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

Choose Queenstown for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Queenstown’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, Queenstown 20: Jakarta leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Jakarta 78, Queenstown 45: Jakarta leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Jakarta 48, Queenstown 12: Jakarta leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Jakarta 66, Queenstown 42: Jakarta leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Jakarta 30, Queenstown 97: Queenstown leads by 67 points.
Day trips. Jakarta 45, Queenstown 50: Queenstown leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Jakarta 50, Queenstown 60: Queenstown leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Jakarta 36, Queenstown 45: Queenstown leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Jakarta 64, Queenstown 28: Jakarta leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Jakarta 80, Queenstown 20: Jakarta leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Jakarta 42, Queenstown 14: Jakarta leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Jakarta 46, Queenstown 42: Jakarta leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Jakarta and Queenstown.

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 culture and sights with your weighting.

Queenstown
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families 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

Queenstown in July

6 °Cdaytime high
-1 °Cnight-time low
115 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
9 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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JakartaQueenstown

Where the figures come from

Queenstown has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Queenstown: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureJakartaQueenstown
Official languageIndonesianEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, Māori
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
SocketsCF50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+12, UTC+13 in summer
Emergency number112111
Elevation91 m324 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre89 non-stop destinationsQueenstown Airport (ZQN)7 km from centre7 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaQueenstown
City population11,135,19129,000
People per km²16,821-
Museums within 10 km440
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.