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The colonnaded court of Luxor Temple, Luxor
LuxorThe colonnaded court of Luxor Temple
Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach

Photos: Luxor by Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Luxor 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 Luxor for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Negril for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • 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. Luxor 6, Negril 93: Negril leads by 87 points.
Food & drink. Luxor 30, Negril 36: Negril leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Luxor 95, Negril 8: Luxor leads by 87 points.
Nightlife. Luxor 10, Negril 40: Negril leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Luxor 32, Negril 60: Negril leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Luxor 62, Negril 35: Luxor leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Luxor 30, Negril 45: Negril leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Luxor 35, Negril 30: Luxor leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Luxor 25, Negril 15: Luxor leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Luxor 90, Negril 44: Luxor leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Luxor 10, Negril 33: Negril leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Luxor 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: Luxor and Negril.

Your match

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

Luxor
38match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Negril
Best match
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.

Luxor in July

41 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
0 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

Luxor 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. Luxor: 1998-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Luxor (6.5 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLuxorNegril
Official languageArabicEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-5
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation89 m10 m
Main airportLuxor International Airport (LXR)7 km from centre29 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLuxorNegril
City population202,2324,500
People per km²486-
Museums within 10 km40
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 months

Where else could you go?

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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). 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. 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.