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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign
Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach

Photos: Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Las Vegas 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 Las Vegas for

  • shopping
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Negril for

  • beaches
  • families
  • 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. Las Vegas 10, Negril 93: Negril leads by 83 points.
Food & drink. Las Vegas 68, Negril 36: Las Vegas leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Las Vegas 25, Negril 8: Las Vegas leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Las Vegas 88, Negril 40: Las Vegas leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Las Vegas 68, Negril 60: Las Vegas leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Las Vegas 25, Negril 35: Negril leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Las Vegas 25, Negril 45: Negril leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Las Vegas 38, Negril 30: Las Vegas leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Las Vegas 64, Negril 15: Las Vegas leads by 49 points.
Affordability. Las Vegas 35, Negril 44: Negril leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Las Vegas 78, Negril 33: Las Vegas leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Las Vegas 40, Negril 52: Negril leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Las Vegas and Negril.

Your match

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

Las Vegas
Best match
47match

Wins on shopping and nightlife with your weighting.

Negril
41match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Las Vegas in July

40 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
9 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

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. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLas VegasNegril
Official language-English, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation610 m10 m
Main airportHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLas VegasNegril
City population641,9034,500
People per km²1,843-
Museums within 10 km210
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.