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The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Ocho Rios or Tunis?

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
  • families
  • beaches

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

Choose Tunis for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Tunis’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, Tunis 60: Ocho Rios leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Ocho Rios 42, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Ocho Rios 16, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Ocho Rios 28, Tunis 33: Tunis leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ocho Rios 72, Tunis 45: Ocho Rios leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Ocho Rios 56, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Ocho Rios 60, Tunis 38: Ocho Rios leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Ocho Rios 24, Tunis 48: Tunis leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Ocho Rios 26, Tunis 50: Tunis leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Ocho Rios 42, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ocho Rios 14, Tunis 38: Tunis leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ocho Rios 50, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ocho Rios and Tunis.

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 families with your weighting.

Tunis
Best match
56match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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

Tunis in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °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). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOcho RiosTunis
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisArabic
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation59 m4 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureOcho RiosTunis
City population16,671602,560
People per km²-2,834
Museums within 10 km016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.