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The Casino de Monte-Carlo, Monaco
MonacoThe Casino de Monte-Carlo
Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach

Photos: Monaco by otterboris, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Monaco 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 Monaco for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Negril for

  • prices
  • beaches

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. Monaco 68, Negril 93: Negril leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Monaco 57, Negril 36: Monaco leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Monaco 55, Negril 8: Monaco leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Monaco 48, Negril 40: Monaco leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Monaco 70, Negril 60: Monaco leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Monaco 84, Negril 35: Monaco leads by 49 points.
Good for families. Monaco 60, Negril 45: Monaco leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Monaco 78, Negril 30: Monaco leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Monaco 52, Negril 15: Monaco leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Monaco 3, Negril 44: Negril leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Monaco 63, Negril 33: Monaco leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Monaco 55, Negril 52: Monaco leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Monaco and Negril.

Your match

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

Monaco
Best match
58match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

Negril
41match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Monaco in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMonacoNegril
Official languageFrenchEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number112Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation68 m10 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureMonacoNegril
City population38,8574,500
People per km²18,503-
Museums within 10 km140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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). 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). Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. 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.