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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
Main Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside, Park City
Park CityMain Street in winter, with snow on the mountainside

Photos: Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License; Park City by Quang Vuong, Pexels License.

Montego Bay or Park City?

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
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Park City for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Park City’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, Park City 8: Montego Bay leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Montego Bay 50, Park City 40: Montego Bay leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Montego Bay 28, Park City 18: Montego Bay leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Montego Bay 42, Park City 25: Montego Bay leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montego Bay 65, Park City 92: Park City leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Montego Bay 50, Park City 40: Montego Bay leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Montego Bay 48, Park City 68: Park City leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Montego Bay 20, Park City 60: Park City leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Montego Bay 25, Park City 35: Park City leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Montego Bay 38, Park City 12: Montego Bay leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montego Bay 32, Park City 28: Montego Bay leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montego Bay 45, Park City 52: Park City leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montego Bay and Park City.

Your match

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

Montego Bay
Best match
44match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Park City
40match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors 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

Park City in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
21 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Park City's temperatures are measured 79 km from the centre, at Evanston.

Park City 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. Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre). Park City: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (78.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontego BayPark City
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican Patois-
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110911
Elevation19 m2,134 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)43 km from centre108 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontego BayPark City
City population123,9948,396
People per km²-185
Museums within 10 km01
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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.