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The old harbour in Kaleiçi, Antalya
AntalyaThe old harbour in Kaleiçi
The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls

Photos: Antalya by Furkan Tumer, Pexels License; Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antalya or Ocho Rios?

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 Antalya for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Ocho Rios for

Ocho Rios does not lead in any category we score.

What lies behind each score is written up on Ocho Rios’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. Antalya 82, Ocho Rios 78: Antalya leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Antalya 57, Ocho Rios 42: Antalya leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Antalya 55, Ocho Rios 16: Antalya leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Antalya 48, Ocho Rios 28: Antalya leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antalya 83, Ocho Rios 72: Antalya leads by 11 points.
Day trips. Antalya 78, Ocho Rios 56: Antalya leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Antalya 74, Ocho Rios 60: Antalya leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Antalya 50, Ocho Rios 24: Antalya leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Antalya 44, Ocho Rios 26: Antalya leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Antalya 62, Ocho Rios 42: Antalya leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antalya 40, Ocho Rios 14: Antalya leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antalya 62, Ocho Rios 50: Antalya leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antalya and Ocho Rios.

Your match

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

Antalya
Best match
61match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Ocho Rios
42match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Antalya in July

35 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
2 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Ocho Rios in July

33 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
8 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

Ocho Rios's temperatures are measured 62 km from the centre, at Kingston / Norman Manley.

Ocho Rios 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. Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre). Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntalyaOcho Rios
Official languageTurkishEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5
Emergency number112Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation30 m59 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre172 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaOcho Rios
City population2,426,35616,671
People per km²1,712-
Museums within 10 km50
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.