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Colourful shopfronts in the city centre, Cork
CorkColourful shopfronts in the city centre
The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls

Photos: Cork by Selim Karadayı, Pexels License; Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cork 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 Cork for

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

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

Choose Ocho Rios for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • 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. Cork 25, Ocho Rios 78: Ocho Rios leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Cork 58, Ocho Rios 42: Cork leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Cork 40, Ocho Rios 16: Cork leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Cork 40, Ocho Rios 28: Cork leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cork 62, Ocho Rios 72: Ocho Rios leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Cork 68, Ocho Rios 56: Cork leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Cork 50, Ocho Rios 60: Ocho Rios leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Cork 58, Ocho Rios 24: Cork leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Cork 40, Ocho Rios 26: Cork leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Cork 33, Ocho Rios 42: Ocho Rios leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cork 45, Ocho Rios 14: Cork leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cork 22, Ocho Rios 50: Ocho Rios leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cork and Ocho Rios.

Your match

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

Cork
Best match
45match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts 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.

Cork in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 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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CorkOcho Rios

Where the figures come from

Cork's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

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. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCorkOcho Rios
Official languageEnglish, IrishEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation0 m59 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkOcho Rios
City population222,33316,671
People per km²5,961-
Museums within 10 km50
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.