Aruba vs Ocho Rios

Curved pool with blue water surrounded by lounge chairs and palm trees, white gazebo in center, multi-story resort buildings with red-tiled roofs in background.

Aruba and Ocho Rios, side by side: live travel advisories, our resort catalog's real guest data, and each destination's honest weather picture. Everything you need to break the tie.

Aruba guide · Ocho Rios guide · How we score

By the numbers

Aruba compared with Ocho Rios
Aruba	Measure	Ocho Rios
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
9 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	7
★ 4.4	Average guest rating	★ 4.5 (better)
$143–$332/night pp	Nightly rates	$117–$430/night pp (better)
2 of 9	Adults-only resorts	5 of 7
Outside the hurricane belt (better)	Hurricane exposure	In the hurricane belt
October–December, and 'rainy' is generous: this is one of the driest islands in the Caribbean	Rainy season	May–June and September–November; the rain is why it's this green
Year-round; January–March is peak season and priced like it	Sweet spot	December–April

Advisory levels sync from travel.state.gov; catalog figures reflect the resorts we've researched, not every hotel in the country. A marked row is one we are willing to call; rows without a mark are a matter of taste, or we have no comparable figure for both sides.

On the map

Aruba

Ocho Rios

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Aruba and Ocho Rios
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Aruba · high °F	85	85	86	87	88	89	89	90	90	89	87	85
Ocho Rios · high °F	82	82	83	84	86	88	88	88	88	87	85	83
Aruba · rain (in)	1.5	0.8	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.7	1.3	1.0	1.8	3.0	3.7	3.2
Ocho Rios · rain (in)	1.5	1.2	1.2	1.8	4.5	4.0	3.0	4.2	5.5	7.5	4.0	2.2

Approximate climate normals for Palm Beach / Eagle Beach and Ocho Rios / St. Ann: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.