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A yellow tram in a narrow street, Lisbon
LisbonA yellow tram in a narrow street
The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls

Photos: Lisbon by Riccardo Toso, Pexels License; Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Lisbon 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 Lisbon for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Ocho Rios for

  • beaches
  • wellness

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. Lisbon 50, Ocho Rios 78: Ocho Rios leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Lisbon 75, Ocho Rios 42: Lisbon leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Lisbon 78, Ocho Rios 16: Lisbon leads by 62 points.
Nightlife. Lisbon 75, Ocho Rios 28: Lisbon leads by 47 points.
Nature & outdoors. Lisbon 75, Ocho Rios 72: Lisbon leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Lisbon 82, Ocho Rios 56: Lisbon leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Lisbon 62, Ocho Rios 60: Lisbon leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Lisbon 66, Ocho Rios 24: Lisbon leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Lisbon 60, Ocho Rios 26: Lisbon leads by 34 points.
Affordability. Lisbon 55, Ocho Rios 42: Lisbon leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Lisbon 60, Ocho Rios 14: Lisbon leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Lisbon 36, Ocho Rios 50: Ocho Rios leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Lisbon and Ocho Rios.

Your match

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

Lisbon
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife 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.

Lisbon in July

28 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
15 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. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLisbonOcho Rios
Official languagePortugueseEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation100 m59 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre156 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonOcho Rios
City population545,79616,671
People per km²5,453-
Museums within 10 km800
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
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.