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The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls
The Latin Bridge over the Miljacka, Sarajevo
SarajevoThe Latin Bridge over the Miljacka

Photos: Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sarajevo by Tumi-1983, CC0.

Ocho Rios or Sarajevo?

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
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose Sarajevo for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Sarajevo’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, Sarajevo 6: Ocho Rios leads by 72 points.
Food & drink. Ocho Rios 42, Sarajevo 60: Sarajevo leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Ocho Rios 16, Sarajevo 64: Sarajevo leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Ocho Rios 28, Sarajevo 44: Sarajevo leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ocho Rios 72, Sarajevo 78: Sarajevo leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Ocho Rios 56, Sarajevo 62: Sarajevo leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Ocho Rios 60, Sarajevo 38: Ocho Rios leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Ocho Rios 24, Sarajevo 60: Sarajevo leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Ocho Rios 26, Sarajevo 40: Sarajevo leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Ocho Rios 42, Sarajevo 80: Sarajevo leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ocho Rios 14, Sarajevo 40: Sarajevo leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ocho Rios 50, Sarajevo 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 Sarajevo.

Your match

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

Ocho Rios
42match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Sarajevo
Best match
51match

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

Sarajevo in July

28 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOcho RiosSarajevo
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Convertible Mark (BAM)
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 110112
Elevation59 m518 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre38 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureOcho RiosSarajevo
City population16,671275,524
People per km²-1,947
Museums within 10 km025
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.