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Portmore
City in Middlesex, Jamaica

Portmore

Portmore is a city in southeastern Jamaica, located in the parish of St Catherine.

Plan a trip to Portmore→From Montego Bay

It primarily serves as a commuter town for the capital city of Kingston.

How locals move

Getting around Portmore the local way

  • Get aroundThere are also minibuses and route taxis which are very affordable.
  • Get aroundCharter Taxis (normal taxis) - negotiate a price before getting in the car.
  • Go nextOcho Rios ("Ochi") - only 4 hours away by minibus/route taxi for ~J$500.
  • Go nextPort Antonio - take a direct minibus/route taxi from HWT for J$200–300.

From Wikivoyage: Kingston (Jamaica), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Christina Xu from Cambridge, USA (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.