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The Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta
JakartaThe Istiqlal Mosque
The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art

Photos: Jakarta by Antonyus Bunjamin, Pexels License; Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Jakarta or Santa Fe?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Jakarta for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Jakarta’s own page.

Choose Santa Fe for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Fe’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Jakarta 28, Santa Fe 5: Jakarta leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Jakarta 78, Santa Fe 62: Jakarta leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Jakarta 48, Santa Fe 66: Santa Fe leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Jakarta 66, Santa Fe 22: Jakarta leads by 44 points.
Nature & outdoors. Jakarta 30, Santa Fe 80: Santa Fe leads by 50 points.
Day trips. Jakarta 45, Santa Fe 70: Santa Fe leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Jakarta 50, Santa Fe 45: Jakarta leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Jakarta 36, Santa Fe 40: Santa Fe leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Jakarta 64, Santa Fe 62: Jakarta leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Jakarta 80, Santa Fe 30: Jakarta leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Jakarta 42, Santa Fe 55: Santa Fe leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Jakarta 46, Santa Fe 55: Santa Fe leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Jakarta and Santa Fe.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Jakarta
51match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Santa Fe
49match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Jakarta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Santa Fe in July

31 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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JakartaSanta Fe

Where the figures come from

Santa Fe's station stands 199 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Santa Fe has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Santa Fe: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Fe / Cieneguilla (12.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureJakartaSanta Fe
Official languageIndonesian-
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation91 m2,134 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre89 non-stop destinationsSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaSanta Fe
City population11,135,19187,505
People per km²16,821645
Museums within 10 km4410
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.