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The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City
Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach

Photos: Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Beijing 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 Beijing for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • day trips

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

Choose Negril for

  • beaches

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. Beijing 6, Negril 93: Negril leads by 87 points.
Food & drink. Beijing 81, Negril 36: Beijing leads by 45 points.
Culture & sights. Beijing 93, Negril 8: Beijing leads by 85 points.
Nightlife. Beijing 58, Negril 40: Beijing leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beijing and Negril are level on 60.
Day trips. Beijing 85, Negril 35: Beijing leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Beijing 64, Negril 45: Beijing leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Beijing 69, Negril 30: Beijing leads by 39 points.
Shopping & style. Beijing 72, Negril 15: Beijing leads by 57 points.
Affordability. Beijing 68, Negril 44: Beijing leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beijing 68, Negril 33: Beijing leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beijing 55, Negril 52: Beijing leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beijing and Negril.

Your match

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

Beijing
Best match
65match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

Negril
41match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Beijing in July

32 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
163 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBeijingNegril
Official languagePutonghuaEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation43 m10 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingNegril
City population21,893,0954,500
People per km²1,334-
Museums within 10 km830
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

Where else could you go?

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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.