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The Three Graces at Pier Head, Liverpool
LiverpoolThe Three Graces at Pier Head
A bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay, Montego Bay
Montego BayA bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay

Photos: Liverpool by Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License.

Liverpool 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 Liverpool for

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

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

Choose Montego Bay for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Liverpool 22, Montego Bay 84: Montego Bay leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Liverpool 48, Montego Bay 50: Montego Bay leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Liverpool 64, Montego Bay 28: Liverpool leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Liverpool 66, Montego Bay 42: Liverpool leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Liverpool 52, Montego Bay 65: Montego Bay leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Liverpool 64, Montego Bay 50: Liverpool leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Liverpool 55, Montego Bay 48: Liverpool leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Liverpool 68, Montego Bay 20: Liverpool leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Liverpool 52, Montego Bay 25: Liverpool leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Liverpool 50, Montego Bay 38: Liverpool leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Liverpool 66, Montego Bay 32: Liverpool leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Liverpool 22, Montego Bay 45: Montego Bay leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Liverpool and Montego Bay.

Your match

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

Liverpool
Best match
52match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

Montego Bay
44match

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.

Liverpool in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 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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Where the figures come from

Liverpool's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Manchester Airport.

Liverpool 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. Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre). Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLiverpoolMontego Bay
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112 or 999Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation70 m19 m
Main airportLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLiverpoolMontego Bay
City population513,441123,994
People per km²4,592-
Museums within 10 km310
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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). 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. 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.