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The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls
The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

Ocho Rios or Venice?

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
  • beaches
  • prices

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

Choose Venice for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’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, Venice 56: Ocho Rios leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Ocho Rios 42, Venice 60: Venice leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Ocho Rios 16, Venice 94: Venice leads by 78 points.
Nightlife. Ocho Rios 28, Venice 27: Ocho Rios leads by 1 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ocho Rios 72, Venice 45: Ocho Rios leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Ocho Rios 56, Venice 86: Venice leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Ocho Rios 60, Venice 45: Ocho Rios leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Ocho Rios 24, Venice 68: Venice leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Ocho Rios 26, Venice 57: Venice leads by 31 points.
Affordability. Ocho Rios 42, Venice 20: Ocho Rios leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ocho Rios 14, Venice 62: Venice leads by 48 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ocho Rios 50, Venice 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 Venice.

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 beaches with your weighting.

Venice
Best match
55match

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

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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.

Venice 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.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOcho RiosVenice
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisItalian
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110112
Elevation59 m2 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOcho RiosVenice
City population16,671250,369
People per km²-602
Museums within 10 km052
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months4 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.