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The railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield, Manchester
ManchesterThe railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield
Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach

Photos: Manchester by IIya Kuzhekin, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Manchester 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 Manchester for

  • shopping
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Negril for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • prices

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. Manchester 9, Negril 93: Negril leads by 84 points.
Food & drink. Manchester 51, Negril 36: Manchester leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Manchester 50, Negril 8: Manchester leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Manchester 72, Negril 40: Manchester leads by 32 points.
Nature & outdoors. Manchester 64, Negril 60: Manchester leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Manchester 77, Negril 35: Manchester leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Manchester 58, Negril 45: Manchester leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Manchester 68, Negril 30: Manchester leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Manchester 62, Negril 15: Manchester leads by 47 points.
Affordability. Manchester 42, Negril 44: Negril leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Manchester 74, Negril 33: Manchester leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Manchester 15, Negril 52: Negril leads by 37 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Manchester and Negril.

Your match

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

Manchester
Best match
54match

Wins on shopping and culture and sights 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.

Manchester in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °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

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. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureManchesterNegril
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
Elevation38 m10 m
Main airportManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre211 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureManchesterNegril
City population547,6274,500
People per km²4,737-
Museums within 10 km280
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone12 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.