VacationSelector

Jakarta or San Francisco?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

San Francisco
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

JakartaSan Francisco
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 1 points.1
JakartaSan Francisco
Score6160
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km544
Coast distance8 km2 km
Water distance8 km2 km
Places to eat. San Francisco leads by 27 points.27
JakartaSan Francisco
Score5683
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9082,359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1639
Museums & heritage. San Francisco leads by 16 points.16
JakartaSan Francisco
Score2844
Museums within 10 km2657
Museums within 2 km of centre1029
Share of museums within 2 km %3851
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. San Francisco leads by 11 points.11
JakartaSan Francisco
Score5768
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0461,434
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372928
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3665
Nightclubs within 4 km1097
Nature & day trips. San Francisco leads by 6 points.6
JakartaSan Francisco
Score5460
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %7257
Park area within 2 km56 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. San Francisco leads by 24 points.24
JakartaSan Francisco
Score3357
Tourist attractions within 2 km248
Park area within 2 km56 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. San Francisco leads by 16 points.16
JakartaSan Francisco
Score4763
Notable places within 2 km58147
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 50 points.50
JakartaSan Francisco
Score9343
Price level global29.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. San Francisco leads by 17 points.17
JakartaSan Francisco
Score6178
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C14 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm0 mm to 105 mm
Dry months17
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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J
A
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Daytime high, °C
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
San Francisco
14
16
18
20
20
22
22
23
23
22
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
San Francisco
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
San Francisco
105
87
91
26
16
5
0
1
7
27
72
87
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
San Francisco
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
San Francisco
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). San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaSan Francisco
TokyoHND, NRT
7 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
11 h 20 m
€662-735
SFO · 18 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
1 h 40 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
16 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
GuangzhouCAN
4 h 35 m
€208-270
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
13 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 20 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 18 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureJakartaSan Francisco
Official languageIndonesian
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation91 m16 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaSan Francisco
City population11,135,191873,965
People per km²16,8211,455
Museums within 10 km4450
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre35108
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. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.