VacationSelector

Jakarta or Rome?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Rome
✓ Best match
72
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.

JakartaRome
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 28 points.28
JakartaRome
Score6133
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km53
Coast distance8 km24 km
Water distance8 km24 km
Places to eat. Rome leads by 4 points.4
JakartaRome
Score5660
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9082,241
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1610
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 56 points.56
JakartaRome
Score2884
Museums within 10 km26161
Museums within 2 km of centre1079
Share of museums within 2 km %3849
Unesco sites within 50 km07
Nightlife. Rome leads by 17 points.17
JakartaRome
Score5774
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0462,022
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372912
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3645
Nightclubs within 4 km1085
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 16 points.16
JakartaRome
Score5470
Protected land share 50 km %19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7278
Park area within 2 km56 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 53 points.53
JakartaRome
Score3386
Tourist attractions within 2 km2126
Park area within 2 km56 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km54
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 52 points.52
JakartaRome
Score4799
Notable places within 2 km581,125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 25 points.25
JakartaRome
Score9368
Price level global29.964.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Rome leads by 10 points.10
JakartaRome
Score6171
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C12 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm21 mm to 114 mm
Dry months13
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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaRome
SingaporeSIN, XSP
1 h 40 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
2 h 15 m
€136-291
FCO · 23 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
2 h 10 m
€176-218
FCO · 23 km
SeoulICN, GMP
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
11 h 15 m
€630-760
FCO · 23 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 20 m
€217-232
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
TokyoHND, NRT
7 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
Addis AbabaADD
9 h 45 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 20 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
5 h 45 m
€270-340
FCO · 23 km
DohaDOH
8 h 45 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
Abu DhabiAUH
8 h 25 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
5 h 45 m
€280-355
2 stops
FCO · 23 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

MeasureJakartaRome
Official languageIndonesianItalian
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation91 m21 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaRome
City population11,135,1912,748,109
People per km²16,8212,135
Museums within 10 km44177
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km07
Distinct cuisines in the centre3565
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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. 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.