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The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls
Gastown, Vancouver
VancouverGastown

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

Ocho Rios or Vancouver?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Vancouver for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Vancouver’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, Vancouver 42: Ocho Rios leads by 36 points.
Food & drink. Ocho Rios 42, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Ocho Rios 16, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Ocho Rios 28, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ocho Rios 72, Vancouver 97: Vancouver leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Ocho Rios 56, Vancouver 45: Ocho Rios leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Ocho Rios 60, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Ocho Rios 24, Vancouver 73: Vancouver leads by 49 points.
Shopping & style. Ocho Rios 26, Vancouver 55: Vancouver leads by 29 points.
Affordability. Ocho Rios 42, Vancouver 27: Ocho Rios leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ocho Rios 14, Vancouver 52: Vancouver leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ocho Rios and Vancouver are level on 50.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ocho Rios and Vancouver.

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.

Vancouver
Best match
56match

Wins on getting around 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

Vancouver in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 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). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOcho RiosVancouver
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisFrench, English
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110911
Elevation59 m2 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOcho RiosVancouver
City population16,671662,248
People per km²-5,759
Museums within 10 km026
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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.