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A dhow below the towers of West Bay, Doha
DohaA dhow below the towers of West Bay
Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach

Photos: Doha by Gregory Hawken Kramer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Doha 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 Doha for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • food and drink

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

Choose Negril for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • day trips

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. Doha 45, Negril 93: Negril leads by 48 points.
Food & drink. Doha 55, Negril 36: Doha leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Doha 55, Negril 8: Doha leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Doha 20, Negril 40: Negril leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Doha 7, Negril 60: Negril leads by 53 points.
Day trips. Doha 5, Negril 35: Negril leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Doha 60, Negril 45: Doha leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Doha 45, Negril 30: Doha leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Doha 60, Negril 15: Doha leads by 45 points.
Affordability. Doha 38, Negril 44: Negril leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Doha 30, Negril 33: Negril leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Doha 38, Negril 52: Negril leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Doha and Negril.

Your match

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

Doha
38match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

Negril
Best match
41match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Doha in July

43 °Cdaytime high
33 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
33 °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. Doha: 1991-2020 normals, Doha International Airport (5.5 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDohaNegril
Official languageArabicEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyQatari Rial (QAR)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+3UTC-5
Emergency number999Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation0 m10 m
Main airportHamad International Airport (DOH)8 km from centre194 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureDohaNegril
City population1,186,0234,500
People per km²8,985-
Museums within 10 km60
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C9 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.