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The Hassan II Mosque and its minaret, Casablanca
CasablancaThe Hassan II Mosque and its minaret
Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach

Photos: Casablanca by Samir Bakkah, Pexels License; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Casablanca 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 Casablanca for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • food and drink

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

Choose Negril for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

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. Casablanca 50, Negril 93: Negril leads by 43 points.
Food & drink. Casablanca 60, Negril 36: Casablanca leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Casablanca 52, Negril 8: Casablanca leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Casablanca 44, Negril 40: Casablanca leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Casablanca 33, Negril 60: Negril leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Casablanca 55, Negril 35: Casablanca leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Casablanca 38, Negril 45: Negril leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Casablanca 42, Negril 30: Casablanca leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Casablanca 50, Negril 15: Casablanca leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Casablanca 68, Negril 44: Casablanca leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Casablanca 38, Negril 33: Casablanca leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Casablanca and Negril are level on 52.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Casablanca and Negril.

Your match

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

Casablanca
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping 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.

Casablanca in July

26 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
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. Casablanca: 1991-2020 normals, Casablanca (5.6 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCasablancaNegril
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCE50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1UTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation115 m10 m
Main airportMohammed V International Airport (CMN)26 km from centre112 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureCasablancaNegril
City population3,215,9354,500
People per km²8,375-
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.