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The opera house on Place de la Comédie, Montpellier
MontpellierThe opera house on Place de la Comédie
Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach

Photos: Montpellier by Peter, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Montpellier 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 Montpellier for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Negril for

  • beaches
  • 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. Montpellier 64, Negril 93: Negril leads by 29 points.
Food & drink. Montpellier 64, Negril 36: Montpellier leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Montpellier 60, Negril 8: Montpellier leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Montpellier 56, Negril 40: Montpellier leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Montpellier 72, Negril 60: Montpellier leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Montpellier 85, Negril 35: Montpellier leads by 50 points.
Good for families. Montpellier 62, Negril 45: Montpellier leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Montpellier 74, Negril 30: Montpellier leads by 44 points.
Shopping & style. Montpellier 47, Negril 15: Montpellier leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Montpellier 50, Negril 44: Montpellier leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Montpellier 63, Negril 33: Montpellier leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Montpellier 42, Negril 52: Negril leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Montpellier and Negril.

Your match

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

Montpellier
Best match
62match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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.

Montpellier in July

30 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
17 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
21 °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. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMontpellierNegril
Official languageFrenchEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCE230 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
Elevation7 m10 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierNegril
City population310,2404,500
People per km²5,452-
Museums within 10 km140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.