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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Belfast 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 Belfast for

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

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

Choose Ocho Rios for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • 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. Belfast 20, Ocho Rios 78: Ocho Rios leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Ocho Rios 42: Belfast leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Ocho Rios 16: Belfast leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Ocho Rios 28: Belfast leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Ocho Rios 72: Belfast leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Ocho Rios 56: Belfast leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Ocho Rios 60: Ocho Rios leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Ocho Rios 24: Belfast leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Ocho Rios 26: Belfast leads by 19 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Ocho Rios 42: Belfast leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Ocho Rios 14: Belfast leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Ocho Rios 50: Ocho Rios leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Ocho Rios.

Your match

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

Belfast
Best match
51match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Ocho Rios
42match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Belfast in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
17 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. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastOcho Rios
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112 or 999Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation3 m59 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastOcho Rios
City population345,00616,671
People per km²3,000-
Museums within 10 km80
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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). 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.