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Bryggen across Vågen, Bergen
BergenBryggen across Vågen
The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls

Photos: Bergen by Abdullah Guc, Pexels License; Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bergen 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 Bergen for

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

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

Choose Ocho Rios for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • day trips

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. Bergen 20, Ocho Rios 78: Ocho Rios leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Bergen 47, Ocho Rios 42: Bergen leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Bergen 55, Ocho Rios 16: Bergen leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Bergen 40, Ocho Rios 28: Bergen leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bergen 88, Ocho Rios 72: Bergen leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Bergen 38, Ocho Rios 56: Ocho Rios leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Bergen and Ocho Rios are level on 60.
Getting around. Bergen 74, Ocho Rios 24: Bergen leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. Bergen 33, Ocho Rios 26: Bergen leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Bergen 12, Ocho Rios 42: Ocho Rios leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bergen 58, Ocho Rios 14: Bergen leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bergen 32, Ocho Rios 50: Ocho Rios leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bergen and Ocho Rios.

Your match

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

Bergen
Best match
46match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Ocho Rios
42match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bergen in July

20 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 °Csea
18 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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BergenOcho Rios

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. Bergen: 1991-2020 normals, Bergen / Florida (1.2 km from centre). Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBergenOcho Rios
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation5 m59 m
Main airportBergen Airport, Flesland (BGO)12 km from centre64 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBergenOcho Rios
City population291,18916,671
People per km²3,339-
Museums within 10 km310
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). 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.