VacationSelector

Jakarta or Tokyo?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Tokyo
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife 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.

JakartaTokyo
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 40 points.40
JakartaTokyo
Score6121
Swim season months124
Beaches 10 km51
Coast distance8 km5 km
Water distance8 km5 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 34 points.34
JakartaTokyo
Score5690
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9086,936
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1625
Museums & heritage. Tokyo leads by 38 points.38
JakartaTokyo
Score2866
Museums within 10 km26302
Museums within 2 km of centre1052
Share of museums within 2 km %3817
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 38 points.38
JakartaTokyo
Score5795
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0466,895
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre3723,033
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3644
Nightclubs within 4 km1058
Nature & day trips. Tokyo leads by 4 points.4
JakartaTokyo
Score5458
Protected land share 50 km %
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7285
Park area within 2 km56 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 38 points.38
JakartaTokyo
Score3371
Tourist attractions within 2 km240
Park area within 2 km56 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km59
Sights concentration. Tokyo leads by 13 points.13
JakartaTokyo
Score4760
Notable places within 2 km58121
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 23 points.23
JakartaTokyo
Score9370
Price level global29.962.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Tokyo leads by 3 points.3
JakartaTokyo
Score6164
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C10 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm57 mm to 237 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
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Tokyo
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaTokyo
SeoulICN, GMP
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
2 h 10 m
€124-187
NRT · 56 km
Kuala LumpurKUL, SZB
2 h 0 m
€120-134
CGK · 20 km
7 h 0 m
€368-391
1 stop
NRT · 56 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
1 h 40 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
6 h 55 m
€353-477
1 stop
HND · 18 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
5 h 55 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 20 m
€217-232
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
6 h 10 m
€318-337
NRT · 56 km
Denpasar (Bali)DPS
1 h 50 m
€129-136
CGK · 20 km
7 h 15 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
Hong KongHKG
4 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
4 h 10 m
€255-268
NRT · 56 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
6 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
3 h 10 m
€333-353
HND · 18 km
DohaDOH
8 h 45 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
10 h 25 m
€931-1048
1 stop
HND · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
NRT · 56 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureJakartaTokyo
Official languageIndonesianJapanese
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation91 m6 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaTokyo
City population11,135,19114,264,798
People per km²16,8216,501
Museums within 10 km44191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre35125
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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.