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Jakarta or Sao Paulo?

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, 2 points apart

Jakarta
54
match

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

Sao Paulo
56
match

Wins on good for families and year-round weather 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.

JakartaSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 61 points.61
JakartaSao Paulo
Score610
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km50
Coast distance8 km51 km
Water distance8 km
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 17 points.17
JakartaSao Paulo
Score5673
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9081,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1627
Museums & heritage. Sao Paulo leads by 15 points.15
JakartaSao Paulo
Score2843
Museums within 10 km2682
Museums within 2 km of centre1026
Share of museums within 2 km %3832
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 15 points.15
JakartaSao Paulo
Score5772
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0461,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3651
Nightclubs within 4 km10118
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 3 points.3
JakartaSao Paulo
Score5451
Protected land share 50 km %26
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %7295
Park area within 2 km56 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 22 points.22
JakartaSao Paulo
Score3355
Tourist attractions within 2 km238
Park area within 2 km56 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo leads by 3 points.3
JakartaSao Paulo
Score4750
Notable places within 2 km5868
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 12 points.12
JakartaSao Paulo
Score9381
Price level global29.946.1
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 22 points.22
JakartaSao Paulo
Score6183
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months11
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
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaSao Paulo
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
6 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
21 h 20 m
€1,139-1567
2 stops
GRU · 21 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

MeasureJakartaSao Paulo
Official languageIndonesianPortuguese
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCF50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation91 m760 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaSao Paulo
City population11,135,19111,451,999
People per km²16,8217,519
Museums within 10 km4490
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3559
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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.