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Praia Mole in Florianopolis, Florianopolis
FlorianopolisPraia Mole in Florianopolis
Seven Mile Beach, Negril
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Photos: Florianopolis by Papa Pic, CC0; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Florianopolis 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 Florianopolis for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

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

Choose Negril for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • live music and the arts

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. Florianopolis 85, Negril 93: Negril leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Florianopolis 58, Negril 36: Florianopolis leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Florianopolis 33, Negril 8: Florianopolis leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Florianopolis 60, Negril 40: Florianopolis leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florianopolis 78, Negril 60: Florianopolis leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Florianopolis 50, Negril 35: Florianopolis leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Florianopolis 60, Negril 45: Florianopolis leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Florianopolis 28, Negril 30: Negril leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Florianopolis 33, Negril 15: Florianopolis leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Florianopolis 60, Negril 44: Florianopolis leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florianopolis 28, Negril 33: Negril leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florianopolis 45, Negril 52: Negril leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florianopolis and Negril.

Your match

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

Florianopolis
Best match
52match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink 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.

Florianopolis in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
11 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. Florianopolis: 1991-2020 normals, Florianopolis (1.7 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFlorianopolisNegril
Official languagePortugueseEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCN60 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation3 m10 m
Main airportHercílio Luz International Airport (FLN)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorianopolisNegril
City population587,4864,500
People per km²870-
Museums within 10 km110
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 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). 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. 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.