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Naples Pier over turquoise water, Naples, Florida
Naples, FloridaNaples Pier over turquoise water
Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach

Photos: Naples, Florida by William “Patrick” Ma…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Naples, Florida 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 Naples, Florida for

  • shopping
  • culture and sights
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Naples, Florida’s own page.

Choose Negril for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • getting around

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. Naples, Florida 87, Negril 93: Negril leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Naples, Florida 46, Negril 36: Naples, Florida leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Naples, Florida 27, Negril 8: Naples, Florida leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Naples, Florida 20, Negril 40: Negril leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Naples, Florida 66, Negril 60: Naples, Florida leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Naples, Florida 43, Negril 35: Naples, Florida leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Naples, Florida 64, Negril 45: Naples, Florida leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Naples, Florida 22, Negril 30: Negril leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Naples, Florida 48, Negril 15: Naples, Florida leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Naples, Florida 17, Negril 44: Negril leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Naples, Florida 40, Negril 33: Naples, Florida leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Naples, Florida 45, Negril 52: Negril leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Naples, Florida and Negril.

Your match

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

Naples, Florida
Best match
44match

Wins on shopping and culture and sights with your weighting.

Negril
41match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Naples, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 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

Naples, Florida 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.

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. Naples, Florida: 2002-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Naples / East Naples (2.3 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNaples, FloridaNegril
Official language-English, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation-2 m10 m
Main airportSouthwest Florida International Airport (RSW)43 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureNaples, FloridaNegril
City population19,1154,500
People per km²450-
Museums within 10 km40
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C10 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). 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.