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The Taj Mahal reflected in its pool, Agra
AgraThe Taj Mahal reflected in its pool
A bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay, Montego Bay
Montego BayA bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay

Photos: Agra by Sanket Sawale, Pexels License; Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License.

Agra or Montego Bay?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Agra for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Agra’s own page.

Choose Montego Bay for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Montego Bay’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Agra 3, Montego Bay 84: Montego Bay leads by 81 points.
Food & drink. Agra 42, Montego Bay 50: Montego Bay leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Agra 80, Montego Bay 28: Agra leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Agra 7, Montego Bay 42: Montego Bay leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Agra 30, Montego Bay 65: Montego Bay leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Agra 70, Montego Bay 50: Agra leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Agra 20, Montego Bay 48: Montego Bay leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Agra 28, Montego Bay 20: Agra leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Agra 38, Montego Bay 25: Agra leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Agra 90, Montego Bay 38: Agra leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Agra 10, Montego Bay 32: Montego Bay leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Agra 15, Montego Bay 45: Montego Bay leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Agra and Montego Bay.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Agra
36match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Montego Bay
Best match
44match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Agra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Montego Bay in July

34 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Agra has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Agra: 1942-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Agra (6.2 km from centre). Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAgraMontego Bay
Official languageHindi, EnglishEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC-5
Emergency number108 or 112Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation171 m19 m
Main airportAgra Airport / Agra Air Force Station (AGR)6 km from centre2 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAgraMontego Bay
City population1,585,705123,994
People per km²8,417-
Museums within 10 km00
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.