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The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls
The beach promenade in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
Tel AvivThe beach promenade in Tel Aviv

Photos: Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tel Aviv by israeltourism, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Ocho Rios or Tel Aviv?

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

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Tel Aviv for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Tel Aviv’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, Tel Aviv 86: Tel Aviv leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Ocho Rios 42, Tel Aviv 80: Tel Aviv leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Ocho Rios 16, Tel Aviv 57: Tel Aviv leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Ocho Rios 28, Tel Aviv 82: Tel Aviv leads by 54 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ocho Rios 72, Tel Aviv 52: Ocho Rios leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Ocho Rios 56, Tel Aviv 84: Tel Aviv leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Ocho Rios 60, Tel Aviv 68: Tel Aviv leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Ocho Rios 24, Tel Aviv 64: Tel Aviv leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Ocho Rios 26, Tel Aviv 55: Tel Aviv leads by 29 points.
Affordability. Ocho Rios 42, Tel Aviv 14: Ocho Rios leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ocho Rios 14, Tel Aviv 70: Tel Aviv leads by 56 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ocho Rios 50, Tel Aviv 35: Ocho Rios leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ocho Rios and Tel Aviv.

Your match

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

Ocho Rios
42match

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

Tel Aviv
Best match
62match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife 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

Tel Aviv in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
27 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Ocho RiosTel Aviv

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). Tel Aviv: 1991-2020 normals, Bet Dagan (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOcho RiosTel Aviv
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisHebrew
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110Police 100, fire 102
Elevation59 m5 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)13 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days-

By the numbers

MeasureOcho RiosTel Aviv
City population16,671467,875
People per km²-8,998
Museums within 10 km098
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months7 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.