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Nomad List| 🏆 Nomad Score™ | 185 reviews |
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| 👶 Family friendly | |
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| 🙊 English speaking | |
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| 👩 Female friendly | |
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| 🌍 Region | Latin America | |
| 🚩 Country | Jamaica | |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 9 days | |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 14 Mbps | |
| ⛅️ Weather | 🌤 29°C 84°F + 💦 Humid (93%) + 💨 10km/h = feels like 37°C 99°F | |
| 🔌 Power | 115V50Hz | |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance | ||
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | DigiCel | |
| 💸 1,000 JMD in USD | USD 7.40 | |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | JMD 10,000 USD 74 | |
| 💳 Cashless society | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) | |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Starbucks | |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable | |
| ♻️ Return rate | 11% of visitors return | |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 110,000 people | |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious | |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | FlipKey | |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Caribbean Airlines | |
💥 We recommend you to take precautions when traveling to Montego Bay as it may not always be safe for travelers, more info | ||
| no-beachbeachairportnon-touristywarm nowwarmhotclean airgood air qualityfast internethigh crimehigh humidityfreedom of pressdemocracyfreedommany women | ||
| 💵 Nomad Cost™ | $2,647 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $1,458 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $2,272 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $649 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $463 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $226 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $2,389 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $112 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (374 listings) | $2,898 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $95 / night |
| 🍝 Dinner | $6 |
| 🍹 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $3 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $2 |
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| Feels like | 9032° hot | 9032° hot | 9535° hot | 9535° hot | 10038° hot | 10842° scorching | 10842° scorching | 10842° scorching | 10842° scorching | 10842° scorching | 10239° hot | 9736° hot |
| Real temperature | 8228° very warm | 8228° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8429° very warm | 8630° very warm | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8630° very warm | 8429° very warm |
| Humidity | sweaty 83% | sweaty 83% | sweaty 83% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 85% | sweaty 86% | sweaty 86% | sweaty 87% | sweaty 87% |
| Rain | not rainy 48mm | not rainy 37mm | rainy 90mm | rainy 103mm | rainy 188mm | rainy 198mm | rainy 181mm | rainy 174mm | rainy 139mm | rainy 157mm | rainy 67mm | rainy 89mm |
| Cloud cover | pockets 20% | pockets 21% | pockets 23% | pockets 24% | pockets 40% | pockets 30% | pockets 27% | pockets 34% | pockets 36% | pockets 37% | pockets 23% | pockets 31% |
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| UV Index | sunburn 8 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 12 UVI | avoid sun 12 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI |
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✅ Fast internet
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Roads are pretty safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Safe for women
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Not safe at all
❌ Very humid now
❌ Not many nomads go here
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ Hospitals are not great
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBT
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