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The Japanese Covered Bridge, Hoi An
Hoi AnThe Japanese Covered Bridge
Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach

Photos: Hoi An by François Guerraz, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Hoi An 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 Hoi An for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • shopping

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

Choose Negril for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • 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. Hoi An 72, Negril 93: Negril leads by 21 points.
Food & drink. Hoi An 68, Negril 36: Hoi An leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Hoi An 66, Negril 8: Hoi An leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Hoi An 28, Negril 40: Negril leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Hoi An 63, Negril 60: Hoi An leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Hoi An 50, Negril 35: Hoi An leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Hoi An 58, Negril 45: Hoi An leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Hoi An 48, Negril 30: Hoi An leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Hoi An 57, Negril 15: Hoi An leads by 42 points.
Affordability. Hoi An 88, Negril 44: Hoi An leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Hoi An 24, Negril 33: Negril leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Hoi An 65, Negril 52: Hoi An leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Hoi An and Negril.

Your match

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

Hoi An
Best match
57match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Negril
41match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Hoi An in July

35 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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. Hoi An: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (23.5 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHoi AnNegril
Official languageVietnameseEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyDong (VND)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsACFG220 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 113, ambulance 115, fire 114Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation13 m10 m
Main airportDa Nang International Airport (DAD)23 km from centre47 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureHoi AnNegril
City population121,7164,500
Museums within 10 km50
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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.