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The Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta
JakartaThe Istiqlal Mosque
The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind

Photos: Jakarta by Antonyus Bunjamin, Pexels License; Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Jakarta or Sayulita?

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

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • prices

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

Choose Sayulita for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Sayulita’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, Sayulita 80: Sayulita leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. Jakarta 78, Sayulita 42: Jakarta leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Jakarta 48, Sayulita 7: Jakarta leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Jakarta 66, Sayulita 33: Jakarta leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Jakarta 30, Sayulita 72: Sayulita leads by 42 points.
Day trips. Jakarta 45, Sayulita 42: Jakarta leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Jakarta 50, Sayulita 42: Jakarta leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Jakarta 36, Sayulita 48: Sayulita leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Jakarta 64, Sayulita 33: Jakarta leads by 31 points.
Affordability. Jakarta 80, Sayulita 45: Jakarta leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Jakarta 42, Sayulita 12: Jakarta leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Jakarta 46, Sayulita 58: Sayulita leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Jakarta and Sayulita.

Your match

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

Jakarta
Best match
51match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink with your weighting.

Sayulita
43match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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

Sayulita in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
342 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Sayulita has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Sayulita: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureJakartaSayulita
Official languageIndonesianSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-6
Emergency number112911
Elevation91 m2 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre89 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaSayulita
City population11,135,1913,390
People per km²16,821-
Museums within 10 km440
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.