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The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo
The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls

Photos: Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Monaco 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 Monaco for

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

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

Choose Ocho Rios for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • 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. Monaco 68, Ocho Rios 78: Ocho Rios leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Monaco 57, Ocho Rios 42: Monaco leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Monaco 55, Ocho Rios 16: Monaco leads by 39 points.
Nightlife. Monaco 48, Ocho Rios 28: Monaco leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Monaco 70, Ocho Rios 72: Ocho Rios leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Monaco 84, Ocho Rios 56: Monaco leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Monaco and Ocho Rios are level on 60.
Getting around. Monaco 78, Ocho Rios 24: Monaco leads by 54 points.
Shopping & style. Monaco 52, Ocho Rios 26: Monaco leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Monaco 3, Ocho Rios 42: Ocho Rios leads by 39 points.
Live music & performing arts. Monaco 63, Ocho Rios 14: Monaco leads by 49 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Monaco 55, Ocho Rios 50: Monaco leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Monaco and Ocho Rios.

Your match

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

Monaco
Best match
58match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Ocho Rios
42match

Wins on prices 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.

Monaco in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °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. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMonacoOcho Rios
Official languageFrenchEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCEF230 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
Elevation68 m59 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoOcho Rios
City population38,85716,671
People per km²18,503-
Museums within 10 km140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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). 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). Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. 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.