VacationSelector

Jakarta or Sofia?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Sofia
56
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

JakartaSofia
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 61 points.61
JakartaSofia
Score610
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km50
Coast distance8 km214 km
Water distance8 km
Places to eat. Sofia leads by 8 points.8
JakartaSofia
Score5664
Restaurants within 2 km of centre908845
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1628
Museums & heritage. Sofia leads by 29 points.29
JakartaSofia
Score2857
Museums within 10 km2651
Museums within 2 km of centre1040
Share of museums within 2 km %3878
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Sofia leads by 4 points.4
JakartaSofia
Score5761
Drinking venues within 4 km1,046958
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372608
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3663
Nightclubs within 4 km10102
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 3 points.3
JakartaSofia
Score5451
Protected land share 50 km %12
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %72100
Park area within 2 km56 hectares229 hectares
Good for families. Sofia leads by 22 points.22
JakartaSofia
Score3355
Tourist attractions within 2 km220
Park area within 2 km56 hectares229 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Sofia leads by 10 points.10
JakartaSofia
Score4757
Notable places within 2 km58104
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sofia leads by 6 points.6
JakartaSofia
Score9399
Price level global29.921.4
Daily budget€77
Year-round weather. Sofia leads by 3 points.3
JakartaSofia
Score6164
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C3.5 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm36 mm to 78 mm
Dry months13
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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J
A
S
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D
Daytime high, °C
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Sofia
4
7
11
17
21
25
28
28
23
18
11
5
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Sofia
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Sofia
36
36
45
52
73
78
64
56
54
56
38
41
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Sofia
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
Sofia
3
4
6
6
8
9
10
10
7
5
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Sofia: 1991-2020 normals, Sofia Observ. (7.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaSofia
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
1 h 15 m
€116-123
SOF · 8 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 20 m
€217-232
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
10 h 0 m
€614-660
2 stops
SOF · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SOF · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 20 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
4 h 45 m
€298-357
1 stop
SOF · 8 km
DohaDOH
8 h 45 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
SOF · 8 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

MeasureJakartaSofia
Official languageIndonesianBulgarian
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation91 m560 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsSofia Airport (SOF)8 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaSofia
City population11,135,1911,213,134
People per km²16,8212,466
Museums within 10 km4442
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3551
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. 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.