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The Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill, Halifax
HalifaxThe Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill
Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach

Photos: Halifax by Danieljmacdonald, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Halifax 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 Halifax for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • shopping

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

Choose Negril for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • prices

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. Halifax 32, Negril 93: Negril leads by 61 points.
Food & drink. Halifax 50, Negril 36: Halifax leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Halifax 42, Negril 8: Halifax leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Halifax 46, Negril 40: Halifax leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Halifax 62, Negril 60: Halifax leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Halifax 63, Negril 35: Halifax leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Halifax 55, Negril 45: Halifax leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Halifax 48, Negril 30: Halifax leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Halifax 35, Negril 15: Halifax leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Halifax 38, Negril 44: Negril leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Halifax 46, Negril 33: Halifax leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Halifax 28, Negril 52: Negril leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Halifax and Negril.

Your match

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

Halifax
Best match
45match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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.

Halifax in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
101 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 °Csea
15 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. Halifax: 1991-2020 normals, Shearwater Airport (6 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHalifaxNegril
Official languageFrench, EnglishEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4, UTC-3 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation28 m10 m
Main airportHalifax / Stanfield International Airport (YHZ)26 km from centre40 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureHalifaxNegril
City population440,0724,500
People per km²80-
Museums within 10 km150
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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.