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Jakarta or Washington DC?

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 value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Washington DC
52
match

Wins on sights concentration 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.

JakartaWashington DC
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 43 points.43
JakartaWashington DC
Score6118
Swim season months123
Beaches 10 km51
Coast distance8 km34 km
Water distance8 km34 km
Places to eat. Washington DC leads by 21 points.21
JakartaWashington DC
Score5677
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9081,666
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1636
Museums & heritage. Washington DC leads by 27 points.27
JakartaWashington DC
Score2855
Museums within 10 km2683
Museums within 2 km of centre1055
Share of museums within 2 km %3866
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Washington DC leads by 4 points.4
JakartaWashington DC
Score5761
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0461,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372593
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3658
Nightclubs within 4 km1054
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 12 points.12
JakartaWashington DC
Score5442
Protected land share 50 km %—10
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %7294
Park area within 2 km56 hectares96 hectares
Good for families. Washington DC leads by 5 points.5
JakartaWashington DC
Score3338
Tourist attractions within 2 km27
Park area within 2 km56 hectares96 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Washington DC leads by 29 points.29
JakartaWashington DC
Score4776
Notable places within 2 km58305
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 50 points.50
JakartaWashington DC
Score9343
Price level global29.9100
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Washington DC leads by 1 points.1
JakartaWashington DC
Score6162
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C7 °C to 31.7 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm65 mm to 108 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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Daytime high, °C
Jakarta
31
31
32
33
33
32
32
33
33
33
33
32
Washington DC
7
9
13
20
24
29
32
31
27
21
14
9
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
Washington DC
3
3
4
9
14
20
25
26
23
18
12
7
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
Washington DC
72
65
89
82
101
107
108
83
100
93
74
86
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
Washington DC
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
Washington DC
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). Washington DC: 1991-2020 normals, Washington National Airport (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaWashington DC
SeoulICN, GMP
6 h 50 m
€227-241
CGK · 20 km
13 h 50 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
TokyoHND, NRT
7 h 30 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
JeddahJED
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
Abu DhabiAUH
8 h 25 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
IAD · 37 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

MeasureJakartaWashington DC
Official languageIndonesian–
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation91 m72 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsRonald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)5 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaWashington DC
City population11,135,191689,545
People per km²16,8213,896
Museums within 10 km4499
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3582
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 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.