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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
A bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay, Montego Bay
Montego BayA bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License.

Amman 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 Amman for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • prices

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

Choose Montego Bay for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

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. Amman 22, Montego Bay 84: Montego Bay leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Montego Bay 50: Amman leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Montego Bay 28: Amman leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Montego Bay 42: Montego Bay leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Montego Bay 65: Montego Bay leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Montego Bay 50: Amman leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Montego Bay 48: Montego Bay leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Montego Bay 20: Amman leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Amman 42, Montego Bay 25: Amman leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Amman 58, Montego Bay 38: Amman leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Montego Bay 32: Montego Bay leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Montego Bay 45: Amman leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Montego Bay.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Amman
45match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Montego Bay
44match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine 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

Amman 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.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmmanMontego Bay
Official languageArabicEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5
Emergency number911Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation776 m19 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanMontego Bay
City population4,007,526123,994
People per km²2,385-
Museums within 10 km80
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.