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The Japanese Covered Bridge, Hoi An
Hoi AnThe Japanese Covered Bridge
The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls

Photos: Hoi An by François Guerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Hoi An 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 Hoi An for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • shopping

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

Choose Ocho Rios for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • 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. Hoi An 72, Ocho Rios 78: Ocho Rios leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Hoi An 68, Ocho Rios 42: Hoi An leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Hoi An 66, Ocho Rios 16: Hoi An leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Hoi An and Ocho Rios are level on 28.
Nature & outdoors. Hoi An 63, Ocho Rios 72: Ocho Rios leads by 9 points.
Day trips. Hoi An 50, Ocho Rios 56: Ocho Rios leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Hoi An 58, Ocho Rios 60: Ocho Rios leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Hoi An 48, Ocho Rios 24: Hoi An leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Hoi An 57, Ocho Rios 26: Hoi An leads by 31 points.
Affordability. Hoi An 88, Ocho Rios 42: Hoi An leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hoi An 24, Ocho Rios 14: Hoi An leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hoi An 65, Ocho Rios 50: Hoi An leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hoi An and Ocho Rios.

Your match

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

Hoi An
Best match
57match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Ocho Rios
42match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Hoi An in July

35 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine 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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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. Hoi An: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (23.5 km from centre). Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHoi AnOcho Rios
Official languageVietnameseEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyDong (VND)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation13 m59 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)23 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureHoi AnOcho Rios
City population121,71616,671
Museums within 10 km50
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.