Americas · Caribbean
Jamaica
2 cities in the atlas · 4 airports with scheduled flights
Port Royal · Photo: Raychristofer · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Capital
- Kingston
- Currency
- JMD
- Jamaican Dollar
- Local time
- Eastern Standard TimeUTC-05:00
- Calling code
- +1-876
- Driving
- On the left
- Plugs
- Type A and B
Facts
Jamaica in figures
From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.
- Capital
- Kingston
- Currency
- Jamaican Dollar JMDToday's indicative rate: JMD 100 ≈ USD 0.63Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
- Languages
- Official: EnglishSpoken: English
- Time zones
- Eastern Standard TimeUTC-05:00
- Calling code
- +1-876
- Driving
- On the left
- Plugs
- Type A and B116 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
- Emergency numbers
- 110ambulance, fire and police112police119police911policeAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
- Population
- 2,837,077 (2025, World Bank)
- Area
- 10,991 km²
- Internet domain
- .jm
- Land borders
- None: an island or a coastal territory with no land border recorded
When to go
Climate across Jamaica
On these averages, Kingston has a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain in November to September.
- Mild to warm and dry
- Mild to warm, humid or showery
- Hot
- Cool
- Wet
- Cold
On the map
Where Jamaica is
The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.
Land borders
None: an island or a coastal territory with no land border recorded
Cities
Cities in Jamaica
All 2 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.
Smaller places with an airport · 1
Airports
Airports in Jamaica
Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.
Large airports
Medium airports · 2
Visas and entry
Visas and entry
Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.
Plan it
Plan a trip to Jamaica
Tell us where in Jamaica, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.