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The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Ocho Rios or Stockholm?

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

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

Choose Stockholm for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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, Stockholm 40: Ocho Rios leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Ocho Rios 42, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Ocho Rios 16, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 61 points.
Nightlife. Ocho Rios 28, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ocho Rios and Stockholm are level on 72.
Day trips. Ocho Rios 56, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Ocho Rios 60, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Ocho Rios 24, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 60 points.
Shopping & style. Ocho Rios 26, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 44 points.
Affordability. Ocho Rios 42, Stockholm 30: Ocho Rios leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ocho Rios 14, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 51 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ocho Rios 50, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ocho Rios and Stockholm.

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.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on culture and sights 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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Ocho RiosStockholm

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.

Stockholm 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.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOcho RiosStockholm
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisSwedish
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Swedish Krona (SEK)
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 m22 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureOcho RiosStockholm
City population16,671984,748
People per km²-5,260
Museums within 10 km0266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.