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The Texas State Capitol under a blue sky, Austin
AustinThe Texas State Capitol under a blue sky
Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach

Photos: Austin by LoneStarMike, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Austin or Negril?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Austin for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Austin’s own page.

Choose Negril for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Negril’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Austin 30, Negril 93: Negril leads by 63 points.
Food & drink. Austin 66, Negril 36: Austin leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Austin 40, Negril 8: Austin leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Austin 65, Negril 40: Austin leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Austin 57, Negril 60: Negril leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Austin 58, Negril 35: Austin leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Austin 55, Negril 45: Austin leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Austin and Negril are level on 30.
Shopping & style. Austin 45, Negril 15: Austin leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Austin 33, Negril 44: Negril leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Austin 77, Negril 33: Austin leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Austin 40, Negril 52: Negril leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Austin and Negril.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Austin
Best match
50match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Negril
41match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Austin in July

36 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
49 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Negril in July

34 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
174 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Negril's temperatures are measured 52 km from the centre, at Montego Bay / Sangster.

Negril has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Austin: 1991-2020 normals, Camp Mabry/Austin City Asos (3.7 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAustinNegril
Official language-English, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation149 m10 m
Main airportAustin Bergstrom International Airport (AUS)13 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureAustinNegril
City population961,8554,500
People per km²1,217-
Museums within 10 km210
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.