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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
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

Photos: Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License; Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Montego Bay or Sedona?

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
  • nightlife
  • prices

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

Choose Sedona for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’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, Sedona 16: Montego Bay leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Montego Bay 50, Sedona 33: Montego Bay leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Montego Bay 28, Sedona 20: Montego Bay leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Montego Bay 42, Sedona 8: Montego Bay leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montego Bay 65, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Montego Bay 50, Sedona 55: Sedona leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Montego Bay 48, Sedona 42: Montego Bay leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Montego Bay 20, Sedona 22: Sedona leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Montego Bay 25, Sedona 34: Sedona leads by 9 points.
Affordability. Montego Bay 38, Sedona 18: Montego Bay leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montego Bay 32, Sedona 13: Montego Bay leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montego Bay 45, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 37 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montego Bay and Sedona.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Sedona
36match

Wins on wellness 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

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 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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Where the figures come from

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona 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). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontego BaySedona
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican Patois-
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-7
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110911
Elevation19 m1,319 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontego BaySedona
City population123,9949,684
People per km²-195
Museums within 10 km00
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.