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The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

Photos: Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Ocho Rios or Sedona?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Sedona for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’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, Sedona 16: Ocho Rios leads by 62 points.
Food & drink. Ocho Rios 42, Sedona 33: Ocho Rios leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Ocho Rios 16, Sedona 20: Sedona leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Ocho Rios 28, Sedona 8: Ocho Rios leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ocho Rios 72, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 21 points.
Day trips. Ocho Rios 56, Sedona 55: Ocho Rios leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Ocho Rios 60, Sedona 42: Ocho Rios leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Ocho Rios 24, Sedona 22: Ocho Rios leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Ocho Rios 26, Sedona 34: Sedona leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Ocho Rios 42, Sedona 18: Ocho Rios leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ocho Rios 14, Sedona 13: Ocho Rios leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ocho Rios 50, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ocho Rios and Sedona.

Your match

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

Ocho Rios
Best match
42match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Sedona
36match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors 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

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 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.

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona 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). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOcho RiosSedona
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican Patois-
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-7
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110911
Elevation59 m1,319 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre149 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureOcho RiosSedona
City population16,6719,684
People per km²-195
Museums within 10 km00
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.