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The old town hall, Boca Raton
Boca RatonThe old town hall
The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls

Photos: Boca Raton by Spudgun67, CC0; Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Boca Raton 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 Boca Raton for

  • shopping
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Ocho Rios for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • wellness

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. Boca Raton 82, Ocho Rios 78: Boca Raton leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Boca Raton 44, Ocho Rios 42: Boca Raton leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Boca Raton 28, Ocho Rios 16: Boca Raton leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Boca Raton 32, Ocho Rios 28: Boca Raton leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Boca Raton 50, Ocho Rios 72: Ocho Rios leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Boca Raton 60, Ocho Rios 56: Boca Raton leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Boca Raton 62, Ocho Rios 60: Boca Raton leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Boca Raton 18, Ocho Rios 24: Ocho Rios leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Boca Raton 54, Ocho Rios 26: Boca Raton leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Boca Raton 22, Ocho Rios 42: Ocho Rios leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Boca Raton 33, Ocho Rios 14: Boca Raton leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Boca Raton 42, Ocho Rios 50: Ocho Rios leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Boca Raton and Ocho Rios.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Boca Raton
44match

Wins on shopping and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Ocho Rios
42match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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.

Boca Raton in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
191 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °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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Boca RatonOcho Rios

Where the figures come from

Boca Raton 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.

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. Boca Raton: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Pompano Beach / Kendall Green (13.6 km from centre). Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBoca RatonOcho Rios
Official language-English, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation4 m59 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)33 km from centre138 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBoca RatonOcho Rios
City population97,42216,671
People per km²1,203-
Museums within 10 km50
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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.