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The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls
The Space Needle behind Pier 70, Seattle
SeattleThe Space Needle behind Pier 70

Photos: Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Seattle by Caio, Pexels License.

Ocho Rios or Seattle?

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 Seattle for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Seattle’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, Seattle 30: Ocho Rios leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Ocho Rios 42, Seattle 66: Seattle leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Ocho Rios 16, Seattle 50: Seattle leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Ocho Rios 28, Seattle 55: Seattle leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ocho Rios 72, Seattle 87: Seattle leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Ocho Rios 56, Seattle 55: Ocho Rios leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Ocho Rios 60, Seattle 64: Seattle leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Ocho Rios 24, Seattle 60: Seattle leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Ocho Rios 26, Seattle 52: Seattle leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Ocho Rios 42, Seattle 22: Ocho Rios leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ocho Rios 14, Seattle 70: Seattle leads by 56 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ocho Rios 50, Seattle 40: Ocho Rios leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ocho Rios and Seattle.

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.

Seattle
Best match
54match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around 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

Seattle in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
15 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
12 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Ocho RiosSeattle

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). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOcho RiosSeattle
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 m40 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOcho RiosSeattle
City population16,671737,015
People per km²-1,996
Museums within 10 km027
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.