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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 Arctic Cathedral, Tromso
TromsoThe Arctic Cathedral

Photos: Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License; Tromso by Moyan Brenn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Montego Bay or Tromso?

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
  • day trips
  • prices

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

Choose Tromso for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Tromso’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, Tromso 8: Montego Bay leads by 76 points.
Food & drink. Montego Bay 50, Tromso 36: Montego Bay leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Montego Bay 28, Tromso 27: Montego Bay leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Montego Bay 42, Tromso 38: Montego Bay leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montego Bay 65, Tromso 92: Tromso leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Montego Bay 50, Tromso 14: Montego Bay leads by 36 points.
Good for families. Montego Bay 48, Tromso 45: Montego Bay leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Montego Bay 20, Tromso 60: Tromso leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Montego Bay 25, Tromso 15: Montego Bay leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Montego Bay 38, Tromso 11: Montego Bay leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montego Bay and Tromso are level on 32.
Wellness & relaxation. Montego Bay 45, Tromso 38: Montego Bay leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montego Bay and Tromso.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Tromso
35match

Wins on getting around 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

Tromso in July

16 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
10 °Csea
24 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Montego BayTromso

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontego BayTromso
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation19 m20 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontego BayTromso
City population123,99479,943
People per km²-32
Museums within 10 km08
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.