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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
Taipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain, Taipei
TaipeiTaipei 101 and the skyline from Elephant Mountain

Photos: Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License; Taipei by Another Believer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Montego Bay or Taipei?

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

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

Choose Taipei for

  • getting around
  • shopping
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Taipei’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, Taipei 40: Montego Bay leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Montego Bay 50, Taipei 88: Taipei leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Montego Bay 28, Taipei 68: Taipei leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Montego Bay 42, Taipei 58: Taipei leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montego Bay 65, Taipei 78: Taipei leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Montego Bay 50, Taipei 76: Taipei leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Montego Bay 48, Taipei 72: Taipei leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Montego Bay 20, Taipei 86: Taipei leads by 66 points.
Shopping & style. Montego Bay 25, Taipei 70: Taipei leads by 45 points.
Affordability. Montego Bay 38, Taipei 66: Taipei leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montego Bay 32, Taipei 55: Taipei leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montego Bay 45, Taipei 80: Taipei leads by 35 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montego Bay and Taipei.

Your match

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

Montego Bay
44match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Taipei
Best match
70match

Wins on getting around and shopping 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

Taipei in July

35 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
288 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Montego BayTaipei

Where the figures come from

Taipei 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). Taipei: 1992-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sungshan / Taipei (3.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontego BayTaipei
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisTaiwanese Sign Language, Amis, Taiwanese Hokkien, Rukai, Bunun, Kanakanavu, Standard Taiwanese Mandarin, Paiwan, Yami, Atayal, Saaroa, Kavalan, Tsou, Seediq, Puyuma, Saisiyat, Sakizaya, Taiwanese Hakka, Truku, Matsu dialect, Kinmen dialect, Wuqiu dialect
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)New Taiwan Dollar (TWD)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110110 or 112 or 119
Elevation19 m10 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsTaiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)33 km from centre
Public holidays this year10 days-

By the numbers

MeasureMontego BayTaipei
City population123,9942,429,429
People per km²-8,938
Museums within 10 km069
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months8 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. 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.