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The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls
Cinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom, Orlando
OrlandoCinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom

Photos: Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Orlando by Michael Gray, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Ocho Rios or Orlando?

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 Ocho Rios for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Ocho Rios’s own page.

Choose Orlando for

  • families
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Orlando’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. Ocho Rios 78, Orlando 42: Ocho Rios leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Ocho Rios 42, Orlando 48: Orlando leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Ocho Rios 16, Orlando 22: Orlando leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Ocho Rios 28, Orlando 40: Orlando leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ocho Rios 72, Orlando 46: Ocho Rios leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Ocho Rios 56, Orlando 58: Orlando leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Ocho Rios 60, Orlando 98: Orlando leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Ocho Rios 24, Orlando 8: Ocho Rios leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Ocho Rios 26, Orlando 58: Orlando leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Ocho Rios 42, Orlando 36: Ocho Rios leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ocho Rios 14, Orlando 40: Orlando leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ocho Rios 50, Orlando 32: Ocho Rios leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ocho Rios and Orlando.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Ocho Rios
42match

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

Orlando
44match

Wins on families 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.

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

Orlando in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
189 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

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. Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOcho RiosOrlando
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican Patois-
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)US Dollar (USD)
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
Elevation59 m34 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOcho RiosOrlando
City population16,671334,854
People per km²-1,086
Museums within 10 km011
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.