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The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls
The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
San FranciscoThe Golden Gate Bridge

Photos: Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; San Francisco by Elijah Cobb, Pexels License.

Ocho Rios or San Francisco?

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
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose San Francisco for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on San Francisco’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, San Francisco 25: Ocho Rios leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Ocho Rios 42, San Francisco 82: San Francisco leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Ocho Rios 16, San Francisco 68: San Francisco leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Ocho Rios 28, San Francisco 58: San Francisco leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ocho Rios 72, San Francisco 80: San Francisco leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Ocho Rios 56, San Francisco 72: San Francisco leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Ocho Rios 60, San Francisco 66: San Francisco leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Ocho Rios 24, San Francisco 70: San Francisco leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Ocho Rios 26, San Francisco 58: San Francisco leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Ocho Rios 42, San Francisco 14: Ocho Rios leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ocho Rios 14, San Francisco 76: San Francisco leads by 62 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ocho Rios 50, San Francisco 42: Ocho Rios leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ocho Rios and San Francisco.

Your match

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

Ocho Rios
42match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

San Francisco
Best match
59match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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

San Francisco in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Ocho RiosSan Francisco

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). San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOcho RiosSan Francisco
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican Patois-
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110911
Elevation59 m16 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOcho RiosSan Francisco
City population16,671873,965
People per km²-1,455
Museums within 10 km051
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. 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.