VacationSelector

Jakarta or York?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

JakartaYork
Beaches & swimming. Jakarta leads by 61 points.61
JakartaYork
Score610
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km52
Coast distance8 km50 km
Water distance8 km
Places to eat. Jakarta leads by 2 points.2
JakartaYork
Score5654
Restaurants within 2 km of centre908361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1631
Museums & heritage. York leads by 18 points.18
JakartaYork
Score2846
Museums within 10 km2618
Museums within 2 km of centre1016
Share of museums within 2 km %3889
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Jakarta leads by 14 points.14
JakartaYork
Score5743
Drinking venues within 4 km1,046450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre372353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3678
Nightclubs within 4 km1014
Nature & day trips. Jakarta leads by 21 points.21
JakartaYork
Score5433
Protected land share 50 km %17
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %7295
Park area within 2 km56 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. York leads by 10 points.10
JakartaYork
Score3343
Tourist attractions within 2 km213
Park area within 2 km56 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km53
Sights concentration. Jakarta leads by 8 points.8
JakartaYork
Score4739
Notable places within 2 km5837
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Jakarta leads by 39 points.39
JakartaYork
Score9354
Price level global29.984.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Jakarta leads by 5 points.5
JakartaYork
Score6156
Monthly daytime high30.5 °C to 33.3 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 360 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months11
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Jakarta
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
30
29
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Jakarta
355
360
197
160
102
70
85
39
56
99
128
210
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Jakarta
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Jakarta
3
3
4
5
5
4
5
6
6
6
4
3
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromJakartaYork
SingaporeSIN, XSP
1 h 40 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 0 m
€508-593
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
3 h 20 m
€217-232
1 stop
CGK · 20 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
6 h 50 m
no fares
CGK · 20 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
JeddahJED
10 h 5 m
€493-631
CGK · 20 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureJakartaYork
Official languageIndonesianEnglish
CurrencyRupiah (IDR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation91 m25 m
Main airportSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre90 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureJakartaYork
City population11,135,191208,400
People per km²16,821766
Museums within 10 km4424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre3554
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.