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The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River
The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls

Photos: Chengdu by TurnOnTheNight, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Chengdu 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 Chengdu for

  • getting around
  • food and drink
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Ocho Rios for

  • beaches
  • 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. Chengdu 5, Ocho Rios 78: Ocho Rios leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Chengdu 86, Ocho Rios 42: Chengdu leads by 44 points.
Culture & sights. Chengdu 60, Ocho Rios 16: Chengdu leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Chengdu 68, Ocho Rios 28: Chengdu leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Chengdu 68, Ocho Rios 72: Ocho Rios leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Chengdu 80, Ocho Rios 56: Chengdu leads by 24 points.
Good for families. Chengdu 65, Ocho Rios 60: Chengdu leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Chengdu 74, Ocho Rios 24: Chengdu leads by 50 points.
Shopping & style. Chengdu 64, Ocho Rios 26: Chengdu leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Chengdu 80, Ocho Rios 42: Chengdu leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Chengdu 50, Ocho Rios 14: Chengdu leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Chengdu 58, Ocho Rios 50: Chengdu leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Chengdu and Ocho Rios.

Your match

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

Chengdu
Best match
63match

Wins on getting around and food and drink 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.

Chengdu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
177 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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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ChengduOcho 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. Chengdu: 1991-2020 normals, Chengdu (4.5 km from centre). Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureChengduOcho Rios
Official languagePutonghuaEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation500 m59 m
Main airportChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureChengduOcho Rios
City population20,937,75716,671
People per km²1,456-
Museums within 10 km100
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.