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The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls
The Hofburg and Heldenplatz, Vienna
ViennaThe Hofburg and Heldenplatz

Photos: Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Vienna by C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT, cropped.

Ocho Rios or Vienna?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Vienna for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Vienna’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, Vienna 27: Ocho Rios leads by 51 points.
Food & drink. Ocho Rios 42, Vienna 68: Vienna leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Ocho Rios 16, Vienna 89: Vienna leads by 73 points.
Nightlife. Ocho Rios 28, Vienna 50: Vienna leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ocho Rios 72, Vienna 62: Ocho Rios leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Ocho Rios 56, Vienna 74: Vienna leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Ocho Rios 60, Vienna 77: Vienna leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Ocho Rios 24, Vienna 90: Vienna leads by 66 points.
Shopping & style. Ocho Rios 26, Vienna 62: Vienna leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Ocho Rios 42, Vienna 44: Vienna leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ocho Rios 14, Vienna 96: Vienna leads by 82 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ocho Rios 50, Vienna 58: Vienna 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 Vienna.

Your match

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

Ocho Rios
42match

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

Vienna
Best match
66match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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

Vienna in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Ocho RiosVienna

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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOcho RiosVienna
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Euro (EUR)
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 m151 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre202 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureOcho RiosVienna
City population16,6712,028,289
People per km²-4,890
Museums within 10 km0152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.