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The Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake, Guilin
GuilinThe Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake
Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach

Photos: Guilin by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Guilin 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 Guilin for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Negril for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nightlife

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. Guilin 8, Negril 93: Negril leads by 85 points.
Food & drink. Guilin 45, Negril 36: Guilin leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Guilin 40, Negril 8: Guilin leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Guilin 30, Negril 40: Negril leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Guilin 88, Negril 60: Guilin leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Guilin 56, Negril 35: Guilin leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Guilin and Negril are level on 45.
Getting around. Guilin 45, Negril 30: Guilin leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Guilin 28, Negril 15: Guilin leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Guilin 78, Negril 44: Guilin leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Guilin 30, Negril 33: Negril leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Guilin 40, Negril 52: Negril leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Guilin and Negril.

Your match

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

Guilin
Best match
44match

Wins on prices and culture and sights 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.

Guilin in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
248 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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. Guilin: 1991-2020 normals, Guilin (7.6 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureGuilinNegril
Official languagePutonghuaEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation153 m10 m
Main airportGuilin Liangjiang International Airport (KWL)25 km from centre43 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureGuilinNegril
City population4,931,1374,500
Museums within 10 km10
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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). 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. 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.

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.