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The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls
The glass bubble of the Dalí Museum above its garden, St. Petersburg, Florida
St. Petersburg, FloridaThe glass bubble of the Dalí Museum above its garden

Photos: Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; St. Petersburg, Florida by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Ocho Rios or St. Petersburg, Florida?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • prices

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

Choose St. Petersburg, Florida for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Petersburg, Florida’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, St. Petersburg, Florida 85: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Ocho Rios 42, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Ocho Rios 16, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Ocho Rios 28, St. Petersburg, Florida 44: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ocho Rios 72, St. Petersburg, Florida 58: Ocho Rios leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Ocho Rios 56, St. Petersburg, Florida 55: Ocho Rios leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Ocho Rios 60, St. Petersburg, Florida 70: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Ocho Rios 24, St. Petersburg, Florida 33: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Ocho Rios 26, St. Petersburg, Florida 38: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Ocho Rios 42, St. Petersburg, Florida 35: Ocho Rios leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ocho Rios 14, St. Petersburg, Florida 42: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ocho Rios 50, St. Petersburg, Florida 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 St. Petersburg, Florida.

Your match

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

Ocho Rios
42match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness with your weighting.

St. Petersburg, Florida
Best match
50match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

St. Petersburg, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre). St. Petersburg, Florida: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOcho RiosSt. Petersburg, Florida
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican Patois-
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110911
Elevation59 m134 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)16 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOcho RiosSt. Petersburg, Florida
City population16,671258,308
People per km²-725
Museums within 10 km013
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months8 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.