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The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls
The Christuskirche among palms, Windhoek
WindhoekThe Christuskirche among palms

Photos: Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Windhoek by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Ocho Rios or Windhoek?

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
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose Windhoek for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Windhoek’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, Windhoek 4: Ocho Rios leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. Ocho Rios 42, Windhoek 36: Ocho Rios leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Ocho Rios 16, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Ocho Rios 28, Windhoek 25: Ocho Rios leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ocho Rios 72, Windhoek 52: Ocho Rios leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Ocho Rios 56, Windhoek 14: Ocho Rios leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Ocho Rios 60, Windhoek 30: Ocho Rios leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Ocho Rios 24, Windhoek 22: Ocho Rios leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Ocho Rios 26, Windhoek 30: Windhoek leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Ocho Rios 42, Windhoek 62: Windhoek leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ocho Rios 14, Windhoek 18: Windhoek leads by 4 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ocho Rios 50, Windhoek 30: Ocho Rios leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ocho Rios and Windhoek.

Your match

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

Ocho Rios
Best match
42match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Windhoek
29match

Wins on prices 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

Windhoek in July

22 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Ocho RiosWindhoek

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). Windhoek: 1991-2020 normals, Windhoek (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOcho RiosWindhoek
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisEnglish
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Namibia Dollar (NAD)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzM220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+2
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110112
Elevation59 m1,650 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsHosea Kutako International Airport (WDH)41 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureOcho RiosWindhoek
City population16,671486,169
People per km²-95
Museums within 10 km05
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. 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.