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Jakarta or Phuket?

1,834 km apart, in Indonesia and Thailand. 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; Phuket in December to March. April to May and November 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
Phuket 30° 7d 32° 5d 33° 9d 32° 16d 31° 24d 30° 20d 30° 18d 30° 19d 29° 21d 29° 26d 29° 21d 30° 12d
Phuket, fare from Bengaluru ₹37,801₹31,678₹36,077₹40,442————₹25,884₹38,456₹31,118₹34,884
Pick PhuketPhuketPhuketneitherneitherJakartaJakartaJakartaJakartaJakartaneitherPhuket

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

1,834 km as the crow flies, about 3h 09m in the air.

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.