VacationSelector

Jakarta or Reykjavik?

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 value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

Reykjavik
46
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

JakartaReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 1 points.1
JakartaReykjavik
Score6160
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km533
Coast distance8 km0 km
Water distance8 km0 km
Places to eat. Jakarta leads by 7 points.7
JakartaReykjavik
Score5649
Restaurants within 2 km of centre908261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1629
Museums & heritage. Reykjavik leads by 22 points.22
JakartaReykjavik
Score2850
Museums within 10 km2634
Museums within 2 km of centre1023
Share of museums within 2 km %3868
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 30 points.30
JakartaReykjavik
Score5727
Drinking venues within 4 km1,046192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3686
Nightclubs within 4 km1010
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 5 points.5
JakartaReykjavik
Score5459
Protected land share 50 km %—16
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7256
Park area within 2 km56 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Reykjavik leads by 9 points.9
JakartaReykjavik
Score3342
Tourist attractions within 2 km221
Park area within 2 km56 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Reykjavik leads by 1 points.1
JakartaReykjavik
Score4748
Notable places within 2 km5861
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 52 points.52
JakartaReykjavik
Score9341
Price level global29.9102.8
Daily budget—€243
Year-round weather. Jakarta leads by 24 points.24
JakartaReykjavik
Score6137
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm41 mm to 97 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
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0

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

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaReykjavik
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
6 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
KEF · 37 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

MeasureJakartaReykjavik
Official languageIndonesianIcelandic
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsCF50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC
Emergency number112112
Elevation91 m8 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaReykjavik
City population11,135,191138,772
People per km²16,821569
Museums within 10 km4423
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3542
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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.