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Ho Chi Minh City or Jakarta?

1,884 km apart, in Vietnam and 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.

Ho Chi Minh City is the better pick in November to February; Jakarta in June to October. March to May are best avoided at both.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Ho Chi Minh City 32° 3d 34° 3d 35° 3d 35° 8d 33° 23d 32° 26d 31° 28d 31° 28d 31° 28d 31° 25d 31° 15d 31° 7d
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
Ho Chi Minh City, fare from Bengaluru —₹30,850₹27,510———₹37,154——₹37,202₹45,200₹52,117
Pick Ho Chi Minh CityHo Chi Minh CityneitherneitherneitherJakartaJakartaJakartaJakartaJakartaHo Chi Minh CityHo Chi Minh City

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

Facts from Wikidata (CC0), the UK Foreign Office (Open Government Licence) and the World Bank. The advisory is written for British travellers; entry rules depend on your passport.

Between them

1,884 km as the crow flies, about 3h 13m in the air.Nonstop, about 2 a day · VietJetAir, Vietnam Airlines.

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.