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Stari Most and the old town, Mostar
MostarStari Most and the old town
Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach

Photos: Mostar by Alan Wang, Pexels License; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Mostar 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 Mostar for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • day trips

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

Choose Negril for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • live music and the arts

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. Mostar 24, Negril 93: Negril leads by 69 points.
Food & drink. Mostar 40, Negril 36: Mostar leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Mostar 54, Negril 8: Mostar leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Mostar 25, Negril 40: Negril leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Mostar 64, Negril 60: Mostar leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Mostar 60, Negril 35: Mostar leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Mostar 34, Negril 45: Negril leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Mostar 44, Negril 30: Mostar leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Mostar 32, Negril 15: Mostar leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Mostar 78, Negril 44: Mostar leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Mostar 16, Negril 33: Negril leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Mostar 20, Negril 52: Negril leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Mostar and Negril.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Mostar
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Wins on culture and sights and prices 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.

Mostar in July

33 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
54 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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. Mostar: 1991-2020 normals, Mostar (0.9 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureMostarNegril
Official languageCroatian, Serbian, BosnianEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyConvertible Mark (BAM)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCF230 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
Elevation60 m10 m
Main airportSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)68 km from centre38 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureMostarNegril
City population105,4484,500
People per km²90-
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. 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.