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The Centro Civico and its clock tower, Bariloche
BarilocheThe Centro Civico and its clock tower
Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach

Photos: Bariloche by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bariloche 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 Bariloche for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

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

Choose Negril for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nightlife

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. Bariloche 27, Negril 93: Negril leads by 66 points.
Food & drink. Bariloche 44, Negril 36: Bariloche leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Bariloche 27, Negril 8: Bariloche leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Bariloche 33, Negril 40: Negril leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bariloche 94, Negril 60: Bariloche leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Bariloche 38, Negril 35: Bariloche leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Bariloche 55, Negril 45: Bariloche leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Bariloche 44, Negril 30: Bariloche leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Bariloche 33, Negril 15: Bariloche leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Bariloche 46, Negril 44: Bariloche leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bariloche 27, Negril 33: Negril leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bariloche 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: Bariloche and Negril.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bariloche
42match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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.

Bariloche in July

8 °Cdaytime high
-1 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
10 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. Bariloche: 1991-2020 normals, Bariloche Aerodrome (11.2 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarilocheNegril
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-5
Emergency number117 or 911Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation794 m10 m
Main airportTeniente Luis Candelaria International Airport (BRC)12 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarilocheNegril
City population136,3814,500
People per km²619-
Museums within 10 km30
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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.