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The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Ocho Rios or Yogyakarta?

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
  • families

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Yogyakarta’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, Yogyakarta 22: Ocho Rios leads by 56 points.
Food & drink. Ocho Rios 42, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Ocho Rios 16, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Ocho Rios 28, Yogyakarta 32: Yogyakarta leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ocho Rios and Yogyakarta are level on 72.
Day trips. Ocho Rios 56, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Ocho Rios 60, Yogyakarta 40: Ocho Rios leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Ocho Rios 24, Yogyakarta 35: Yogyakarta leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Ocho Rios 26, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Ocho Rios 42, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ocho Rios 14, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ocho Rios and Yogyakarta 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 Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Ocho Rios
42match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
Best match
55match

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

Yogyakarta in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Ocho RiosYogyakarta

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.

Yogyakarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureOcho RiosYogyakarta
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisIndonesian
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+7
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110112
Elevation59 m113 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days-

By the numbers

MeasureOcho RiosYogyakarta
City population16,671422,732
People per km²-13,007
Museums within 10 km038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.