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Jakarta or Kuala Lumpur?

1,129 km apart, in Indonesia and Malaysia. 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.

Jakarta is the better pick in June to October; Kuala Lumpur in February. March to May and November to January are best avoided at both.

Month by month

Month JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
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
Kuala Lumpur 30° 20d 31° 14d 31° 21d 31° 26d 31° 25d 31° 20d 31° 17d 30° 20d 30° 21d 30° 22d 30° 28d 30° 27d
Kuala Lumpur, fare from Bengaluru —————————₹37,335₹23,659—
Pick neitherKuala LumpurneitherneitherneitherJakartaJakartaJakartaJakartaJakartaneitherneither

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

1,129 km as the crow flies, about 2h 18m in the air.Nonstop, about 30 a day · 9 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.