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Inverness Castle above the River Ness, Inverness
InvernessInverness Castle above the River Ness
Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach

Photos: Inverness by Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Inverness 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 Inverness for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Inverness’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. Inverness 20, Negril 93: Negril leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Inverness and Negril are level on 36.
Culture & sights. Inverness 27, Negril 8: Inverness leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Inverness 28, Negril 40: Negril leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Inverness 84, Negril 60: Inverness leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Inverness 56, Negril 35: Inverness leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Inverness 55, Negril 45: Inverness leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Inverness 48, Negril 30: Inverness leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Inverness 30, Negril 15: Inverness leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Inverness 38, Negril 44: Negril leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Inverness and Negril are level on 33.
Wellness & relaxation. Inverness 30, Negril 52: Negril leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Inverness and Negril.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Inverness
40match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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.

Inverness in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
69 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
17 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

Inverness 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.

Inverness's sunshine is measured 43 km from the centre, at Kinloss.

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. Inverness: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Inverness / Dalcross (11.9 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInvernessNegril
Official languageEnglishEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112 or 999Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation7 m10 m
Main airportInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureInvernessNegril
City population47,3804,500
People per km²2,289-
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 months

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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.