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Main Street in winter with the mountains behind, Breckenridge
BreckenridgeMain Street in winter with the mountains behind
Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach

Photos: Breckenridge by Jeff Gunn, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Breckenridge 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 Breckenridge for

  • getting around
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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

Choose Negril for

  • beaches
  • prices
  • 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. Breckenridge 4, Negril 93: Negril leads by 89 points.
Food & drink. Breckenridge 33, Negril 36: Negril leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Breckenridge 20, Negril 8: Breckenridge leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Breckenridge 30, Negril 40: Negril leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Breckenridge 90, Negril 60: Breckenridge leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Breckenridge 44, Negril 35: Breckenridge leads by 9 points.
Good for families. Breckenridge 60, Negril 45: Breckenridge leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Breckenridge 62, Negril 30: Breckenridge leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Breckenridge 25, Negril 15: Breckenridge leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Breckenridge 10, Negril 44: Negril leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Breckenridge 32, Negril 33: Negril leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Breckenridge 30, Negril 52: Negril leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Breckenridge and Negril.

Your match

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

Breckenridge
37match

Wins on getting around and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Negril
Best match
41match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Breckenridge in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
41 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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

Breckenridge's temperatures are measured 38 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Breckenridge 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.

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. Breckenridge: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (37.7 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBreckenridgeNegril
Official language-English, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation2,926 m10 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)124 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBreckenridgeNegril
City population5,0784,500
People per km²332-
Museums within 10 km00
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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.