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The Fisherman's Bastion, Budapest
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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
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Photos: Budapest by Perituss, CC0; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Budapest 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 Budapest for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • wellness

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

Choose Negril for

  • beaches
  • 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. Budapest 25, Negril 93: Negril leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Budapest 63, Negril 36: Budapest leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Budapest 80, Negril 8: Budapest leads by 72 points.
Nightlife. Budapest 78, Negril 40: Budapest leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Budapest 58, Negril 60: Negril leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Budapest 68, Negril 35: Budapest leads by 33 points.
Good for families. Budapest 62, Negril 45: Budapest leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Budapest 78, Negril 30: Budapest leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Budapest 55, Negril 15: Budapest leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Budapest 62, Negril 44: Budapest leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Budapest 76, Negril 33: Budapest leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Budapest 98, Negril 52: Budapest leads by 46 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Budapest and Negril.

Your match

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

Budapest
Best match
67match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Negril
41match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Budapest in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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. Budapest: 1991-2020 normals, Budapest Met Center (2.1 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBudapestNegril
Official languageHungarianEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyForint (HUF)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCF230 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
Elevation117 m10 m
Main airportBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD)18 km from centre157 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBudapestNegril
City population1,675,7774,500
People per km²3,191-
Museums within 10 km810
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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). 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.