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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
The boardwalk at Delaware Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Rehoboth BeachThe boardwalk at Delaware Avenue

Photos: Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Montego Bay or Rehoboth Beach?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • getting around
  • families
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Rehoboth Beach’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, Rehoboth Beach 70: Montego Bay leads by 14 points.
Food & drink. Montego Bay 50, Rehoboth Beach 44: Montego Bay leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Montego Bay 28, Rehoboth Beach 14: Montego Bay leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Montego Bay 42, Rehoboth Beach 40: Montego Bay leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montego Bay 65, Rehoboth Beach 50: Montego Bay leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Montego Bay and Rehoboth Beach are level on 50.
Good for families. Montego Bay 48, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Montego Bay 20, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Montego Bay 25, Rehoboth Beach 45: Rehoboth Beach leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Montego Bay 38, Rehoboth Beach 32: Montego Bay leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montego Bay 32, Rehoboth Beach 28: Montego Bay leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montego Bay 45, Rehoboth Beach 32: Montego Bay leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montego Bay and Rehoboth Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Montego Bay
44match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

Rehoboth Beach
44match

Wins on getting around and families 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

Rehoboth Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
92 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
23 °Csea
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

Rehoboth Beach 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). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontego BayRehoboth Beach
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican Patois-
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110911
Elevation19 m5 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontego BayRehoboth Beach
City population123,9941,108
People per km²-258
Museums within 10 km02
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 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.