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Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky
Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Montevideo 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 Montevideo for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Negril for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • 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. Montevideo 55, Negril 93: Negril leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Montevideo 57, Negril 36: Montevideo leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Montevideo 54, Negril 8: Montevideo leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Montevideo 50, Negril 40: Montevideo leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montevideo 34, Negril 60: Negril leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Montevideo 55, Negril 35: Montevideo leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Montevideo 55, Negril 45: Montevideo leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Montevideo 54, Negril 30: Montevideo leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Montevideo 36, Negril 15: Montevideo leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Montevideo 42, Negril 44: Negril leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montevideo 57, Negril 33: Montevideo leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montevideo 38, Negril 52: Negril leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montevideo and Negril.

Your match

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

Montevideo
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Negril
41match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
10 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. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontevideoNegril
Official language-English, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyPeso Uruguayo (UYU)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCFIL230 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-5
Emergency number911Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation41 m10 m
Main airportCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontevideoNegril
City population1,302,9544,500
People per km²1,785-
Museums within 10 km360
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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). 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. 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.