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A bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay, Montego Bay
Montego BayA bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay
Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks

Photos: Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License; Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Montego Bay or Nashville?

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 Montego Bay for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Nashville for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Nashville’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. Montego Bay 84, Nashville 14: Montego Bay leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Montego Bay 50, Nashville 62: Nashville leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Montego Bay 28, Nashville 50: Nashville leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Montego Bay 42, Nashville 70: Nashville leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montego Bay 65, Nashville 46: Montego Bay leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Montego Bay 50, Nashville 52: Nashville leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Montego Bay 48, Nashville 55: Nashville leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Montego Bay 20, Nashville 30: Nashville leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Montego Bay 25, Nashville 42: Nashville leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Montego Bay 38, Nashville 30: Montego Bay leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montego Bay 32, Nashville 82: Nashville leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montego Bay 45, Nashville 20: Montego Bay leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montego Bay and Nashville.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Montego Bay
44match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Nashville
46match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

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

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Montego BayNashville

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre). Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontego BayNashville
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican Patois-
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110911
Elevation19 m182 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontego BayNashville
City population123,994689,447
People per km²-506
Museums within 10 km012
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.