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The Three Graces fountain, Place de la Bourse, Bordeaux
BordeauxThe Three Graces fountain, Place de la Bourse
Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach

Photos: Bordeaux by Gzen92, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bordeaux 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 Bordeaux for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • day trips

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

Choose Negril for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Bordeaux 50, Negril 93: Negril leads by 43 points.
Food & drink. Bordeaux 78, Negril 36: Bordeaux leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Bordeaux 68, Negril 8: Bordeaux leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Bordeaux 50, Negril 40: Bordeaux leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bordeaux 58, Negril 60: Negril leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Bordeaux 78, Negril 35: Bordeaux leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Bordeaux 57, Negril 45: Bordeaux leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Bordeaux 76, Negril 30: Bordeaux leads by 46 points.
Shopping & style. Bordeaux 56, Negril 15: Bordeaux leads by 41 points.
Affordability. Bordeaux 42, Negril 44: Negril leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bordeaux 55, Negril 33: Bordeaux leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bordeaux 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: Bordeaux and Negril.

Your match

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

Bordeaux
Best match
59match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around 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.

Bordeaux in July

27 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
47 mmrain in the month
8 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. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBordeauxNegril
Official languageFrenchEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation1 m10 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxNegril
City population267,9914,500
People per km²5,425-
Museums within 10 km180
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.