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The Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta
JakartaThe Istiqlal Mosque
The top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain, Vail
VailThe top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain

Photos: Jakarta by Antonyus Bunjamin, Pexels License; Vail by DReifGalaxyM31, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Jakarta or Vail?

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

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Vail for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Vail’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, Vail 5: Jakarta leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Jakarta 78, Vail 35: Jakarta leads by 43 points.
Culture & sights. Jakarta 48, Vail 10: Jakarta leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Jakarta 66, Vail 30: Jakarta leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Jakarta 30, Vail 92: Vail leads by 62 points.
Day trips. Jakarta and Vail are level on 45.
Good for families. Jakarta 50, Vail 55: Vail leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Jakarta 36, Vail 62: Vail leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Jakarta 64, Vail 35: Jakarta leads by 29 points.
Affordability. Jakarta 80, Vail 5: Jakarta leads by 75 points.
Live music & performing arts. Jakarta and Vail are level on 42.
Wellness & relaxation. Jakarta 46, Vail 48: Vail leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Jakarta and Vail.

Your match

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

Jakarta
Best match
51match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Vail
39match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around 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

Vail in July

29 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
35 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Vail's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Kremmling.

Vail's station stands 186 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Vail has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Vail: 2006-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kremmling (46.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureJakartaVail
Official languageIndonesian-
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation91 m2,445 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre89 non-stop destinationsEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)48 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaVail
City population11,135,1914,835
People per km²16,821400
Museums within 10 km441
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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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. 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.