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The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls
The Silver Pagoda, Phnom Penh
Phnom PenhThe Silver Pagoda

Photos: Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Phnom Penh by Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Ocho Rios or Phnom Penh?

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
  • families

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

Choose Phnom Penh for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Phnom Penh’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, Phnom Penh 6: Ocho Rios leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Ocho Rios 42, Phnom Penh 62: Phnom Penh leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Ocho Rios 16, Phnom Penh 62: Phnom Penh leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Ocho Rios 28, Phnom Penh 58: Phnom Penh leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ocho Rios 72, Phnom Penh 28: Ocho Rios leads by 44 points.
Day trips. Ocho Rios 56, Phnom Penh 34: Ocho Rios leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Ocho Rios 60, Phnom Penh 32: Ocho Rios leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Ocho Rios 24, Phnom Penh 35: Phnom Penh leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Ocho Rios 26, Phnom Penh 46: Phnom Penh leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Ocho Rios 42, Phnom Penh 86: Phnom Penh leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ocho Rios 14, Phnom Penh 32: Phnom Penh leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ocho Rios and Phnom Penh are level on 50.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ocho Rios and Phnom Penh.

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.

Phnom Penh
44match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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

Phnom Penh in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
168 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Ocho RiosPhnom Penh

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). Phnom Penh: 1991-2020 normals, Phnom-Penh / Pochentong (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOcho RiosPhnom Penh
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisKhmer
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Riel (KHR)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation59 m11 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsTecho International Airport (KTI)23 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureOcho RiosPhnom Penh
City population16,6712,129,371
People per km²-3,138
Museums within 10 km03
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.