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Jakarta or San Sebastian?

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 value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

San Sebastian
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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 Sebastian
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 6 points.6
JakartaSan Sebastian
Score6155
Swim season months122
Beaches 10 km510
Coast distance8 km0 km
Water distance8 km0 km
Places to eat. Jakarta leads by 1 points.1
JakartaSan Sebastian
Score5655
Restaurants within 2 km of centre908472
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1626
Museums & heritage. San Sebastian leads by 11 points.11
JakartaSan Sebastian
Score2839
Museums within 10 km2617
Museums within 2 km of centre107
Share of museums within 2 km %3841
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 17 points.17
JakartaSan Sebastian
Score5740
Drinking venues within 4 km1,046388
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372338
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3687
Nightclubs within 4 km1012
Nature & day trips. San Sebastian leads by 2 points.2
JakartaSan Sebastian
Score5456
Protected land share 50 km %11
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7252
Park area within 2 km56 hectares70 hectares
Good for families. Jakarta leads by 3 points.3
JakartaSan Sebastian
Score3330
Tourist attractions within 2 km25
Park area within 2 km56 hectares70 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. San Sebastian leads by 7 points.7
JakartaSan Sebastian
Score4754
Notable places within 2 km5889
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 22 points.22
JakartaSan Sebastian
Score9371
Price level global29.960.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Jakarta leads by 3 points.3
JakartaSan Sebastian
Score6158
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C11.2 °C to 22.9 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm92 mm to 203 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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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
San Sebastian
11
12
14
15
18
20
22
23
21
19
14
12
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
San Sebastian
13
12
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
San Sebastian
151
125
119
126
122
96
92
109
117
155
203
153
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
San Sebastian
9
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
San Sebastian
3
4
5
5
7
6
7
6
6
5
3
3

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 Sebastian: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Igueldo (6.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaSan Sebastian
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 75 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 75 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

MeasureJakartaSan Sebastian
Official languageIndonesianSpanish
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation91 m6 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsSan Sebastián Airport (EAS)16 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaSan Sebastian
City population11,135,191189,866
People per km²16,8213,118
Museums within 10 km4414
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre3545
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months2 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.