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Palms on Waikiki Beach, Honolulu
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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach

Photos: Honolulu by Jess Loiterton, Pexels License; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Honolulu 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 Honolulu for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • families

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

Choose Negril for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • wellness

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. Honolulu 91, Negril 93: Negril leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Honolulu 70, Negril 36: Honolulu leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Honolulu 55, Negril 8: Honolulu leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Honolulu 45, Negril 40: Honolulu leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Honolulu 88, Negril 60: Honolulu leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Honolulu 38, Negril 35: Honolulu leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Honolulu 80, Negril 45: Honolulu leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Honolulu 52, Negril 30: Honolulu leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Honolulu 60, Negril 15: Honolulu leads by 45 points.
Affordability. Honolulu 15, Negril 44: Negril leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Honolulu 40, Negril 33: Honolulu leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Honolulu 50, Negril 52: Negril leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Honolulu and Negril.

Your match

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

Honolulu
Best match
57match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping with your weighting.

Negril
41match

Wins on prices 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.

Honolulu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °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. Honolulu: 1991-2020 normals, Honolulu International Airport (10.1 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHonoluluNegril
Official language-English, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-10UTC-5
Emergency number911Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation12 m10 m
Main airportDaniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureHonoluluNegril
City population350,9644,500
People per km²1,981-
Museums within 10 km120
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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). 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.