VacationSelector

Jakarta or West Palm Beach?

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 value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

JakartaWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 27 points.27
JakartaWest Palm Beach
Score6188
Swim season months1212
Beaches 10 km510
Coast distance8 km0 km
Water distance8 km0 km
Places to eat. Jakarta leads by 19 points.19
JakartaWest Palm Beach
Score5637
Restaurants within 2 km of centre908262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1614
Museums & heritage. Jakarta leads by 11 points.11
JakartaWest Palm Beach
Score2817
Museums within 10 km265
Museums within 2 km of centre103
Share of museums within 2 km %3860
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 37 points.37
JakartaWest Palm Beach
Score5720
Drinking venues within 4 km1,046132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre37290
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3668
Nightclubs within 4 km1010
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 15 points.15
JakartaWest Palm Beach
Score5469
Protected land share 50 km %15
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7245
Park area within 2 km56 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Jakarta leads by 12 points.12
JakartaWest Palm Beach
Score3321
Tourist attractions within 2 km23
Park area within 2 km56 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Jakarta leads by 35 points.35
JakartaWest Palm Beach
Score4712
Notable places within 2 km588
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 50 points.50
JakartaWest Palm Beach
Score9343
Price level global29.9100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 14 points.14
JakartaWest Palm Beach
Score6175
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
West Palm Beach
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). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaWest Palm Beach
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 20 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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

MeasureJakartaWest Palm Beach
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 m6 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaWest Palm Beach
City population11,135,191117,415
People per km²16,821786
Museums within 10 km444
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3518
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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.