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Wat Pho, Bangkok
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The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls

Photos: Bangkok by Lu Zhao, Pexels License; Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bangkok 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 Bangkok for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • shopping

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

Choose Ocho Rios for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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. Bangkok 12, Ocho Rios 78: Ocho Rios leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, Ocho Rios 42: Bangkok leads by 53 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, Ocho Rios 16: Bangkok leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, Ocho Rios 28: Bangkok leads by 57 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, Ocho Rios 72: Ocho Rios leads by 47 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, Ocho Rios 56: Bangkok leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, Ocho Rios 60: Ocho Rios leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, Ocho Rios 24: Bangkok leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, Ocho Rios 26: Bangkok leads by 54 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, Ocho Rios 42: Bangkok leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, Ocho Rios 14: Bangkok leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, Ocho Rios 50: Bangkok leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and Ocho Rios.

Your match

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

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

Ocho Rios
42match

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.

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBangkokOcho Rios
Official languageThaiEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyBaht (THB)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation2 m59 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokOcho Rios
City population5,676,64816,671
People per km²3,619-
Museums within 10 km590
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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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). 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.