VacationSelector

Jakarta or San Jose?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

San Jose
39
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

JakartaSan Jose
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 53 points.53
JakartaSan Jose
Score618
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km51
Coast distance8 km14 km
Water distance8 km14 km
Places to eat. Jakarta leads by 15 points.15
JakartaSan Jose
Score5641
Restaurants within 2 km of centre908313
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1616
Museums & heritage. Jakarta leads by 2 points.2
JakartaSan Jose
Score2826
Museums within 10 km2620
Museums within 2 km of centre109
Share of museums within 2 km %3845
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 26 points.26
JakartaSan Jose
Score5731
Drinking venues within 4 km1,046231
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre37288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3638
Nightclubs within 4 km1016
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 16 points.16
JakartaSan Jose
Score5470
Protected land share 50 km %26
Landscape blanket share 50 km %02
Land share of disc %7291
Park area within 2 km56 hectares101 hectares
Good for families. Jakarta and San Jose are level on 33.
JakartaSan Jose
Score3333
Tourist attractions within 2 km22
Park area within 2 km56 hectares101 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Jakarta leads by 33 points.33
JakartaSan Jose
Score4714
Notable places within 2 km589
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 50 points.50
JakartaSan Jose
Score9343
Price level global29.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 24 points.24
JakartaSan Jose
Score6185
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C15.4 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm0 mm to 78 mm
Dry months18
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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
San Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
San Jose
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 Jose
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 Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaSan Jose
TokyoHND, NRT
7 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
SeoulICN, GMP
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
11 h 20 m
€662-735
SFO · 57 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
1 h 40 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
16 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
GuangzhouCAN
4 h 35 m
€208-270
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
13 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 20 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 57 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 Jose
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 m25 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaSan Jose
City population11,135,1911,013,240
People per km²16,8212,167
Museums within 10 km4419
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3530
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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.