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Indonesia

75 cities in the atlas · 69 airports with scheduled flights

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Capital: Jakarta
Currency: IDR; Indonesian Rupiah
Local time: Western Indonesia TimeUTC+07:00; 2 more
Calling code: +62
Driving: On the left
Plugs: Type C and F

Facts

Indonesia in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Jakarta
Currency: Indonesian Rupiah IDRToday's indicative rate: IDR 1,000 ≈ USD 0.056Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: IndonesianSpoken: Indonesian, English, Dutch and Javanese
Time zones: Western Indonesia TimeUTC+07:00Central Indonesia TimeUTC+08:00Eastern Indonesia TimeUTC+09:00
Calling code: +62
Driving: On the left
Plugs: Type C and F127 V / 230 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 112general emergencyAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 285,721,236 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 1,919,440 km²
Internet domain: .id
Land borders: Malaysia Papua New Guinea Timor-Leste

When to go

Climate across Indonesia

In June to September, more than half of the 48 cities with figures in Indonesia have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
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The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Jakarta	29°	28°	29°	29°	30°	29°	29°	29°	30°	31°	30°	29°
Surabaya	29°	29°	29°	30°	30°	30°	31°	32°	33°	33°	32°	30°
Bandung	25°	24°	25°	25°	25°	25°	25°	25°	26°	27°	26°	25°
Medan	28°	28°	29°	29°	30°	29°	29°	29°	29°	28°	28°	28°
Yogyakarta	28°	28°	28°	29°	29°	28°	28°	29°	30°	30°	29°	28°
Denpasar	28°	28°	28°	28°	27°	27°	26°	26°	28°	29°	29°	28°
Palembang	29°	29°	29°	30°	30°	29°	29°	30°	30°	30°	30°	29°
Makassar	28°	28°	28°	29°	30°	29°	30°	30°	31°	32°	31°	29°
Semarang	29°	28°	29°	29°	29°	30°	31°	33°	34°	33°	31°	29°
Padang	26°	26°	26°	26°	27°	26°	26°	26°	26°	26°	26°	26°
Cities good for going, of 48	3	7	3	6	19	33	35	37	33	20	6	2

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

On the map

Where Indonesia is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

Cities

Cities in Indonesia

All 75 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

More cities · 18

Smaller places with an airport · 27

Airports

Airports in Indonesia

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Large airports

Medium airports · 50

Photographs

Indonesia in pictures

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.

Jakarta
Photo: yohanes budiyanto · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Denpasar
Photo: Pinterpandai.com · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Guides

Our guides in Indonesia

Indonesia
Bali

Visas and entry

Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.

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Plan it

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Sources for this page

All sources and licences

GeoNames — Place data © GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Unicode CLDR 48.2.2 (cldr-json) — Unicode CLDR data, © Unicode, Inc., Unicode License v3.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.