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Bali or Jakarta?

985 km apart, both in Indonesia. Each is scored month by month on the same ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. This is where they part, and when.

Bali is the better pick in April to May; Jakarta in July to October; either in June. November to March are best avoided at both.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Bali 29° 25d 29° 24d 29° 23d 29° 16d 29° 17d 28° 14d 27° 11d 27° 11d 28° 12d 29° 14d 30° 20d 29° 23d
Jakarta 29° 26d 29° 25d 30° 26d 31° 25d 31° 21d 31° 18d 31° 11d 32° 9d 32° 12d 32° 18d 31° 22d 30° 24d
Bali, fare from Bengaluru ₹47,849₹37,520——————₹63,082₹60,303₹42,425₹57,692
Pick neitherneitherneitherBaliBalieitherJakartaJakartaJakartaJakartaneitherneither

Each cell is that destination's own verdict for the month — sweet spot, ok or avoid — with its typical daily high and its rainy days ("11d"). The pick goes to the better verdict; with the same verdict, to the higher score, unless the two are within a whisker of each other, when it is either. A month both would avoid is neither. A dot marks a busy month. Fares are the typical return from Bengaluru, in INR.

Before you go

Both are in Indonesia, so the currency, the plugs and the travel advice are the same: type C and F plugs, driving on the left, paying in the Rupiah. Everything for Indonesia.

Between them

985 km as the crow flies, about 2h 07m in the air.Nonstop, about 41 a day · 10 airlines. By road, 1,192 km and about 14h 41m.

The flight time is estimated from the distance. A road, train or bus is named only where it was measured — flights from AeroDataBox, roads from OpenRouteService, timetables via Transitous — and none of it is a fare; the searches on each destination's page are where prices live.

Also compared

Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. The comparison is the difference between two pages, not a third opinion.