VacationSelector

Jakarta or Tromso?

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

Your match

Jakarta
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on nightlife and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

JakartaTromso
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 9 points.9
JakartaTromso
Score6152
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km514
Coast distance8 km0 km
Water distance8 km0 km
Places to eat. Jakarta leads by 32 points.32
JakartaTromso
Score5624
Restaurants within 2 km of centre90885
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1616
Museums & heritage. Jakarta leads by 5 points.5
JakartaTromso
Score2823
Museums within 10 km2610
Museums within 2 km of centre108
Share of museums within 2 km %3880
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 50 points.50
JakartaTromso
Score577
Drinking venues within 4 km1,04667
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre37261
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3691
Nightclubs within 4 km105
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 43 points.43
JakartaTromso
Score5411
Protected land share 50 km %—9
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %7265
Park area within 2 km56 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Jakarta leads by 19 points.19
JakartaTromso
Score3314
Tourist attractions within 2 km29
Park area within 2 km56 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Jakarta leads by 19 points.19
JakartaTromso
Score4728
Notable places within 2 km5820
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 39 points.39
JakartaTromso
Score9354
Price level global29.985.1
Daily budget—€203
Year-round weather. Jakarta leads by 28 points.28
JakartaTromso
Score6133
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm56 mm to 128 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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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaTromso
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 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

MeasureJakartaTromso
Official languageIndonesianNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation91 m20 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaTromso
City population11,135,19179,943
People per km²16,82132
Museums within 10 km448
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3523
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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.