Montego Bay vs Tanzania

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.

Thatched-roof pavilion with blue curtains surrounded by palm trees, flowering plants, and a small pool at The Palms Zanzibar.

Montego Bay and Tanzania, 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.

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By the numbers

Montego Bay compared with Tanzania
Montego Bay	Measure	Tanzania
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution (better)	U.S. travel advisory	Level 3: Reconsider Travel
7	Resorts in our catalog	14 (better)
★ 4.5	Average guest rating	★ 4.7 (better)
$120–$210/night pp (better)	Nightly rates	$152–$615/night pp
4 of 7	Adults-only resorts	0 of 14
In the hurricane belt	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season (better)
May–June and September–November, mostly short afternoon bursts	Rainy season	Long rains mid-March–May (April is seriously wet), short rains November
December–April	Sweet spot	June–October and December–February
~3–4h from the US East Coast	Flight time	~16–19h+ from the US, with a connection

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

Montego Bay

Tanzania

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Montego Bay and Tanzania
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Montego Bay · high °F	82	82	83	84	86	88	88	88	88	87	85	83
Tanzania · high °F	89	90	90	87	84	84	83	83	84	86	88	89
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
Tanzania · rain (in)	3.0	2.4	5.9	15.3	7.8	1.9	1.1	1.4	2.0	3.5	8.0	5.5

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