Costa del Sol vs Montego Bay

Ikos Andalusia's outdoor bar terrace features woven pendant lamps, bar seating, and tall palm trees with pink flowering plants in foreground.

Beachfront dining area at JOIA Rose Hall by Iberostar with wooden tables, white chairs, cream umbrellas, and a tall palm tree, with the resort building and bar in the background.

Costa del Sol and Montego Bay, 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.

By the numbers

Costa del Sol compared with Montego Bay
Costa del Sol	Measure	Montego Bay
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
6	Resorts in our catalog	11 (better)
★ 4.4	Average guest rating	★ 4.5 (better)
$67–$526/night pp (better)	Nightly rates	$120–$822/night pp
0 of 6	Adults-only resorts	6 of 11
No hurricane season (better)	Hurricane exposure	In the hurricane belt
November–March	Rainy season	May–June and September–November, mostly short afternoon bursts
June and September; July–August is hottest and busiest	Sweet spot	December–April
Málaga (AGP), most resorts 20–60 min west along the coast	Airport	Sangster (MBJ), most resorts 10–30 min
Torremolinos and Benalmádena near the airport; Marbella and Estepona further west	The strip	Rose Hall & Ironshore, east of the airport
Sun with Andalusia attached; day trips to Granada, Seville and Ronda	Best for	Short transfers, golf, first Jamaica trips

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

Costa del Sol

Montego Bay

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Costa del Sol and Montego Bay
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Costa del Sol · high °F	63	64	67	70	75	81	86	86	82	75	68	64
Montego Bay · high °F	82	82	83	84	86	88	88	88	88	87	85	83
Costa del Sol · rain (in)	2.7	2.3	1.9	1.6	0.8	0.2	0.0	0.2	0.9	2.2	3.7	3.9
Montego Bay · rain (in)	0.9	0.6	0.6	1.1	4.0	3.5	2.4	3.5	5.1	7.1	3.0	1.5

Approximate climate normals for Málaga and Montego Bay / Rose Hall: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.