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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 Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms, Tangier
TangierThe Cap Spartel lighthouse among palms

Photos: Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License; Tangier by Ideophagous, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Montego Bay or Tangier?

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
  • families
  • nightlife

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

Choose Tangier for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Tangier’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, Tangier 50: Montego Bay leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Montego Bay 50, Tangier 58: Tangier leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Montego Bay 28, Tangier 57: Tangier leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Montego Bay 42, Tangier 30: Montego Bay leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montego Bay 65, Tangier 55: Montego Bay leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Montego Bay 50, Tangier 72: Tangier leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Montego Bay 48, Tangier 35: Montego Bay leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Montego Bay 20, Tangier 40: Tangier leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Montego Bay 25, Tangier 42: Tangier leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Montego Bay 38, Tangier 76: Tangier leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montego Bay 32, Tangier 28: Montego Bay leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montego Bay 45, Tangier 50: Tangier leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montego Bay and Tangier.

Your match

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

Montego Bay
44match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Tangier
Best match
49match

Wins on prices 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

Tangier in July

29 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Montego BayTangier

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre). Tangier: 1991-2020 normals, Tanger Aerodrome (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontego BayTangier
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation19 m56 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsTangier Ibn Battuta Airport (TNG)11 km from centre50 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontego BayTangier
City population123,9941,275,428
People per km²-6,393
Museums within 10 km06
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.