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The cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar, Bogota
BogotaThe cathedral on Plaza de Bolivar
Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach

Photos: Bogota by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bogota 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 Bogota for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • prices

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

Choose Negril for

  • beaches
  • wellness

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. Bogota 5, Negril 93: Negril leads by 88 points.
Food & drink. Bogota 66, Negril 36: Bogota leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Bogota 68, Negril 8: Bogota leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Bogota 72, Negril 40: Bogota leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bogota 64, Negril 60: Bogota leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Bogota 52, Negril 35: Bogota leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Bogota and Negril are level on 45.
Getting around. Bogota 36, Negril 30: Bogota leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Bogota 52, Negril 15: Bogota leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Bogota 77, Negril 44: Bogota leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bogota 64, Negril 33: Bogota leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bogota 28, Negril 52: Negril leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bogota and Negril.

Your match

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

Bogota
Best match
52match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping 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.

Bogota in July

17 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
49 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 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. Bogota: 1991-2020 normals, Bogota / Eldorado (14.1 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBogotaNegril
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyColombian Peso (COP)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsAB110 V, 60 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-5
Emergency number123Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation2,582 m10 m
Main airportEl Dorado International Airport (BOG)13 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year19 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBogotaNegril
City population8,034,6494,500
People per km²5,092-
Museums within 10 km300
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.