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Fort San Pedro in Cebu City, Cebu
CebuFort San Pedro in Cebu City
The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls

Photos: Cebu by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cebu 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 Cebu for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose Ocho Rios for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Cebu 60, Ocho Rios 78: Ocho Rios leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Cebu 58, Ocho Rios 42: Cebu leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Cebu 40, Ocho Rios 16: Cebu leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Cebu 46, Ocho Rios 28: Cebu leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cebu 60, Ocho Rios 72: Ocho Rios leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Cebu 44, Ocho Rios 56: Ocho Rios leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Cebu 45, Ocho Rios 60: Ocho Rios leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Cebu 26, Ocho Rios 24: Cebu leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Cebu 44, Ocho Rios 26: Cebu leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Cebu 80, Ocho Rios 42: Cebu leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cebu 25, Ocho Rios 14: Cebu leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cebu and Ocho Rios are level on 50.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cebu and Ocho Rios.

Your match

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

Cebu
Best match
48match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Ocho Rios
42match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Cebu in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
205 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °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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CebuOcho 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. Cebu: 1991-2020 normals, Mactan (7.1 km from centre). Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCebuOcho Rios
Official languageEnglish, Filipino, TaglishEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyPhilippine Peso (PHP)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5
Emergency number911Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation135 m59 m
Main airportMactan Cebu International Airport (CEB)9 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year18 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCebuOcho Rios
City population965,33216,671
People per km²3,065-
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.