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The pyramids of Giza, Cairo
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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach

Photos: Cairo by Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Cairo 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 Cairo for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Cairo’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. Cairo 10, Negril 93: Negril leads by 83 points.
Food & drink. Cairo 60, Negril 36: Cairo leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Cairo 96, Negril 8: Cairo leads by 88 points.
Nightlife. Cairo 48, Negril 40: Cairo leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cairo 30, Negril 60: Negril leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Cairo 66, Negril 35: Cairo leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Cairo 32, Negril 45: Negril leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Cairo 35, Negril 30: Cairo leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Cairo 58, Negril 15: Cairo leads by 43 points.
Affordability. Cairo 95, Negril 44: Cairo leads by 51 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cairo 50, Negril 33: Cairo leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cairo 15, Negril 52: Negril leads by 37 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cairo and Negril.

Your match

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

Cairo
Best match
50match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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.

Cairo in July

36 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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. Cairo: 1991-2020 normals, Helwan (21.9 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCairoNegril
Official languageArabicEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation23 m10 m
Main airportCairo International Airport (CAI)17 km from centre127 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCairoNegril
City population9,801,5364,500
People per km²18,564-
Museums within 10 km480
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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.