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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 CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands, Toronto
TorontoThe CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands

Photos: Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License; Toronto by Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Montego Bay or Toronto?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Toronto for

  • getting around
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Toronto’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, Toronto 34: Montego Bay leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Montego Bay 50, Toronto 70: Toronto leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Montego Bay 28, Toronto 50: Toronto leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Montego Bay 42, Toronto 62: Toronto leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montego Bay 65, Toronto 52: Montego Bay leads by 13 points.
Day trips. Montego Bay and Toronto are level on 50.
Good for families. Montego Bay 48, Toronto 74: Toronto leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Montego Bay 20, Toronto 65: Toronto leads by 45 points.
Shopping & style. Montego Bay 25, Toronto 66: Toronto leads by 41 points.
Affordability. Montego Bay 38, Toronto 34: Montego Bay leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montego Bay 32, Toronto 72: Toronto leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montego Bay 45, Toronto 33: Montego Bay leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montego Bay and Toronto.

Your match

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

Montego Bay
44match

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

Toronto
Best match
55match

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

Toronto in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Montego BayToronto

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontego BayToronto
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisFrench, English
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
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 m76 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontego BayToronto
City population123,9942,794,356
People per km²-4,434
Museums within 10 km032
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months1 month

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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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.