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Patrika Gate, Jaipur
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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
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Photos: Jaipur by Chainwit., CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Jaipur 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 Jaipur for

  • culture and sights
  • shopping
  • prices

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

Choose Negril for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Jaipur 3, Negril 93: Negril leads by 90 points.
Food & drink. Jaipur 66, Negril 36: Jaipur leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Jaipur 80, Negril 8: Jaipur leads by 72 points.
Nightlife. Jaipur 25, Negril 40: Negril leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Jaipur 38, Negril 60: Negril leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Jaipur 55, Negril 35: Jaipur leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Jaipur 25, Negril 45: Negril leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Jaipur and Negril are level on 30.
Shopping & style. Jaipur 74, Negril 15: Jaipur leads by 59 points.
Affordability. Jaipur 88, Negril 44: Jaipur leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Jaipur 35, Negril 33: Jaipur leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Jaipur 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: Jaipur and Negril.

Your match

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

Jaipur
Best match
46match

Wins on culture and sights and shopping 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.

Jaipur in July

36 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
195 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

Jaipur 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.

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. Jaipur: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Jaipur / Sanganer (11.1 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureJaipurNegril
Official languageHindi, EnglishEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC-5
Emergency number108 or 112Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation431 m10 m
Main airportJaipur International Airport (JAI)10 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureJaipurNegril
City population3,073,3504,500
Museums within 10 km60
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.