VacationSelector

Jakarta or Sydney?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Jakarta
54
match

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

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage 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.

JakartaSydney
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 1 points.1
JakartaSydney
Score6160
Swim season months126
Beaches 10 km5160
Coast distance8 km7 km
Water distance8 km7 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 22 points.22
JakartaSydney
Score5678
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9082,205
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1631
Museums & heritage. Sydney leads by 23 points.23
JakartaSydney
Score2851
Museums within 10 km2644
Museums within 2 km of centre1020
Share of museums within 2 km %3845
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 18 points.18
JakartaSydney
Score5775
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0462,050
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3721,405
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3669
Nightclubs within 4 km10120
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 4 points.4
JakartaSydney
Score5458
Protected land share 50 km %10
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7252
Park area within 2 km56 hectares115 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 31 points.31
JakartaSydney
Score3364
Tourist attractions within 2 km237
Park area within 2 km56 hectares115 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km52
Sights concentration. Sydney leads by 13 points.13
JakartaSydney
Score4760
Notable places within 2 km58123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 43 points.43
JakartaSydney
Score9350
Price level global29.990.2
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 20 points.20
JakartaSydney
Score6181
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C17.7 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm55 mm to 121 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
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaSydney
Denpasar (Bali)DPS
1 h 50 m
€129-136
CGK · 20 km
6 h 5 m
€460-617
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
2 h 0 m
€120-134
CGK · 20 km
8 h 25 m
€419-457
SYD · 9 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
1 h 40 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
8 h 5 m
€498-549
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
SeoulICN, GMP
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
10 h 30 m
€548-574
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
TokyoHND, NRT
7 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
9 h 50 m
€671
SYD · 9 km
MelbourneAVV, MEL, MEB
6 h 45 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
1 h 35 m
€125-169
SYD · 9 km
Hong KongHKG
4 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
Ho Chi Minh CitySGN
2 h 55 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
8 h 45 m
€404-717
SYD · 9 km
ManilaMNL
3 h 55 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
DohaDOH
8 h 45 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
15 h 15 m
€997-1100
SYD · 9 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 2026-08 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

MeasureJakartaSydney
Official languageIndonesianEnglish
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation91 m6 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaSydney
City population11,135,1915,450,496
People per km²16,821449
Museums within 10 km4438
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3579
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 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.