VacationSelector

Jakarta or Rio de Janeiro?

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 value for money and places to eat with your weighting.

Rio de Janeiro
✓ Best match
69
match

Wins on museums & heritage and beaches & swimming 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.

JakartaRio de Janeiro
Beaches & swimming. Rio de Janeiro leads by 39 points.39
JakartaRio de Janeiro
Score61100
Swim season months1212
Beaches 10 km561
Coast distance8 km1 km
Water distance8 km1 km
Places to eat. Jakarta leads by 2 points.2
JakartaRio de Janeiro
Score5654
Restaurants within 2 km of centre908804
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1616
Museums & heritage. Rio de Janeiro leads by 41 points.41
JakartaRio de Janeiro
Score2869
Museums within 10 km26110
Museums within 2 km of centre1051
Share of museums within 2 km %3846
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Jakarta and Rio de Janeiro are level on 57.
JakartaRio de Janeiro
Score5757
Drinking venues within 4 km1,046818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372509
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3662
Nightclubs within 4 km1050
Nature & day trips. Rio de Janeiro leads by 8 points.8
JakartaRio de Janeiro
Score5462
Protected land share 50 km %21
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %7257
Park area within 2 km56 hectares113 hectares
Good for families. Rio de Janeiro leads by 26 points.26
JakartaRio de Janeiro
Score3359
Tourist attractions within 2 km230
Park area within 2 km56 hectares113 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Rio de Janeiro leads by 9 points.9
JakartaRio de Janeiro
Score4756
Notable places within 2 km5898
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 12 points.12
JakartaRio de Janeiro
Score9381
Price level global29.946.1
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Rio de Janeiro leads by 24 points.24
JakartaRio de Janeiro
Score6185
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C24 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm42 mm to 232 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
Rio de Janeiro
28
28
28
27
25
24
24
25
25
26
26
27
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rio de Janeiro
25
25
25
25
24
23
22
21
21
22
23
24
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Rio de Janeiro
208
151
173
101
71
49
45
42
69
108
220
232
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Rio de Janeiro
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Rio de Janeiro
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). Rio de Janeiro: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaRio de Janeiro
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
11 h 55 m
€900-974
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 20 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
14 h 40 m
€1,154-1306
GIG · 12 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

MeasureJakartaRio de Janeiro
Official languageIndonesianPortuguese
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCF50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation91 m31 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsRio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaRio de Janeiro
City population11,135,1916,211,223
People per km²16,8214,930
Museums within 10 km4470
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3527
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.