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The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken
A bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay, Montego Bay
Montego BayA bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay

Photos: Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License.

Interlaken or Montego Bay?

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 Interlaken for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Montego Bay for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Montego Bay’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. Interlaken 30, Montego Bay 84: Montego Bay leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Interlaken 25, Montego Bay 50: Montego Bay leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Interlaken 8, Montego Bay 28: Montego Bay leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Interlaken 15, Montego Bay 42: Montego Bay leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Interlaken 97, Montego Bay 65: Interlaken leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Interlaken 78, Montego Bay 50: Interlaken leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Interlaken 72, Montego Bay 48: Interlaken leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Interlaken 80, Montego Bay 20: Interlaken leads by 60 points.
Shopping & style. Interlaken 22, Montego Bay 25: Montego Bay leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Interlaken 8, Montego Bay 38: Montego Bay leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Interlaken 15, Montego Bay 32: Montego Bay leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Interlaken 40, Montego Bay 45: Montego Bay leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Interlaken and Montego Bay.

Your match

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

Interlaken
41match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Montego Bay
Best match
44match

Wins on beaches 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.

Interlaken in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
126 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Montego Bay in July

34 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
9 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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InterlakenMontego Bay

Where the figures come from

Interlaken 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. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInterlakenMontego Bay
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation571 m19 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenMontego Bay
City population6,123123,994
People per km²1,424-
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.