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Jakarta or Rotterdam?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Jakarta
54
match

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

Rotterdam
54
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.

JakartaRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 24 points.24
JakartaRotterdam
Score6137
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km522
Coast distance8 km24 km
Water distance8 km24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 16 points.16
JakartaRotterdam
Score5672
Restaurants within 2 km of centre908862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1646
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 32 points.32
JakartaRotterdam
Score2860
Museums within 10 km2641
Museums within 2 km of centre1020
Share of museums within 2 km %3849
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 8 points.8
JakartaRotterdam
Score5749
Drinking venues within 4 km1,046542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3670
Nightclubs within 4 km1040
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 12 points.12
JakartaRotterdam
Score5442
Protected land share 50 km %—10
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7279
Park area within 2 km56 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 29 points.29
JakartaRotterdam
Score3362
Tourist attractions within 2 km227
Park area within 2 km56 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km58
Sights concentration. Rotterdam leads by 4 points.4
JakartaRotterdam
Score4751
Notable places within 2 km5874
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 35 points.35
JakartaRotterdam
Score9358
Price level global29.979.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. Jakarta leads by 5 points.5
JakartaRotterdam
Score6156
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromJakartaRotterdam
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 20 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
Denpasar (Bali)DPS
1 h 50 m
€129-136
CGK · 20 km
15 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
2 h 0 m
€120-134
CGK · 20 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
1 h 40 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
5 h 55 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 20 m
€217-232
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
SeoulICN, GMP
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
TokyoHND, NRT
7 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
JeddahJED
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
5 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
50 m
no fares
BRU · 113 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 2026-08 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

MeasureJakartaRotterdam
Official languageIndonesianDutch
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation91 m10 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaRotterdam
City population11,135,191664,311
People per km²16,8212,080
Museums within 10 km4440
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre3577
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.