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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
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Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires 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 Buenos Aires for

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Buenos Aires’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. Buenos Aires 7, Negril 93: Negril leads by 86 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Negril 36: Buenos Aires leads by 39 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Negril 8: Buenos Aires leads by 63 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Negril 40: Buenos Aires leads by 55 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Negril 60: Negril leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Negril 35: Buenos Aires leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Negril 45: Buenos Aires leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Negril 30: Buenos Aires leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Negril 15: Buenos Aires leads by 45 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Negril 44: Buenos Aires leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Negril 33: Buenos Aires leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 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: Buenos Aires and Negril.

Your match

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

Buenos Aires
Best match
57match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife 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.

Buenos Aires in July

15 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
50 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 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. Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresNegril
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-5
Emergency number117 or 911Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation25 m10 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresNegril
City population3,121,7074,500
People per km²15,355-
Museums within 10 km760
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.