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Big Ben and Westminster Bridge, London
LondonBig Ben and Westminster Bridge
The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls

Photos: London by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

London 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 London for

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

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

Choose Ocho Rios for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • 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. London 25, Ocho Rios 78: Ocho Rios leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. London 84, Ocho Rios 42: London leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. London 94, Ocho Rios 16: London leads by 78 points.
Nightlife. London 88, Ocho Rios 28: London leads by 60 points.
Nature & outdoors. London 57, Ocho Rios 72: Ocho Rios leads by 15 points.
Day trips. London 90, Ocho Rios 56: London leads by 34 points.
Good for families. London 82, Ocho Rios 60: London leads by 22 points.
Getting around. London 85, Ocho Rios 24: London leads by 61 points.
Shopping & style. London 95, Ocho Rios 26: London leads by 69 points.
Affordability. London 15, Ocho Rios 42: Ocho Rios leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. London 98, Ocho Rios 14: London leads by 84 points.
Wellness & relaxation. London 40, Ocho Rios 50: Ocho Rios leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: London and Ocho Rios.

Your match

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

London
Best match
71match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Ocho Rios
42match

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.

London in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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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LondonOcho Rios

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. London: 1992-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, London Weather Centre (1.3 km from centre). Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLondonOcho Rios
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
Elevation4 m59 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre224 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonOcho Rios
City population8,799,72816,671
People per km²5,598-
Museums within 10 km2160
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
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). 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.