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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
Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira

Photos: Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License; Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Montego Bay or Porto?

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 Porto for

  • getting around
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Porto’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, Porto 40: Montego Bay leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Montego Bay 50, Porto 70: Porto leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Montego Bay 28, Porto 68: Porto leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Montego Bay 42, Porto 65: Porto leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montego Bay 65, Porto 64: Montego Bay leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Montego Bay 50, Porto 79: Porto leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Montego Bay 48, Porto 52: Porto leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Montego Bay 20, Porto 66: Porto leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Montego Bay 25, Porto 52: Porto leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Montego Bay 38, Porto 62: Porto leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montego Bay 32, Porto 52: Porto leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montego Bay 45, Porto 34: Montego Bay leads by 11 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montego Bay and Porto.

Your match

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

Montego Bay
44match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Porto
Best match
59match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights 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

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Montego BayPorto

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontego BayPorto
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisPortuguese
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110112
Elevation19 m104 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre134 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontego BayPorto
City population123,994273,476
People per km²-6,606
Museums within 10 km042
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.