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Naples Pier over turquoise water, Naples, Florida
Naples, FloridaNaples Pier over turquoise water
The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls

Photos: Naples, Florida by William “Patrick” Ma…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Naples, Florida or Ocho Rios?

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 Naples, Florida for

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Naples, Florida’s own page.

Choose Ocho Rios for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Ocho Rios’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. Naples, Florida 87, Ocho Rios 78: Naples, Florida leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Naples, Florida 46, Ocho Rios 42: Naples, Florida leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Naples, Florida 27, Ocho Rios 16: Naples, Florida leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Naples, Florida 20, Ocho Rios 28: Ocho Rios leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Naples, Florida 66, Ocho Rios 72: Ocho Rios leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Naples, Florida 43, Ocho Rios 56: Ocho Rios leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Naples, Florida 64, Ocho Rios 60: Naples, Florida leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Naples, Florida 22, Ocho Rios 24: Ocho Rios leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Naples, Florida 48, Ocho Rios 26: Naples, Florida leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Naples, Florida 17, Ocho Rios 42: Ocho Rios leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Naples, Florida 40, Ocho Rios 14: Naples, Florida leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Naples, Florida 45, Ocho Rios 50: Ocho Rios leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Naples, Florida and Ocho Rios.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Naples, Florida
44match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping with your weighting.

Ocho Rios
42match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Naples, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Ocho Rios in July

33 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Naples, FloridaOcho Rios

Where the figures come from

Naples, Florida 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.

Ocho Rios's temperatures are measured 62 km from the centre, at Kingston / Norman Manley.

Ocho Rios 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. Naples, Florida: 2002-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Naples / East Naples (2.3 km from centre). Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNaples, FloridaOcho Rios
Official language-English, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation-2 m59 m
Main airportSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)43 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaples, FloridaOcho Rios
City population19,11516,671
People per km²450-
Museums within 10 km40
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C10 months12 months

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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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.