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Lower Broadway and its honky-tonks, Nashville
NashvilleLower Broadway and its honky-tonks
Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach

Photos: Nashville by Warren LeMay, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Nashville 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 Nashville for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose Negril for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Nashville 14, Negril 93: Negril leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Nashville 62, Negril 36: Nashville leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Nashville 50, Negril 8: Nashville leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Nashville 70, Negril 40: Nashville leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nashville 46, Negril 60: Negril leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Nashville 52, Negril 35: Nashville leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Nashville 55, Negril 45: Nashville leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Nashville and Negril are level on 30.
Shopping & style. Nashville 42, Negril 15: Nashville leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Nashville 30, Negril 44: Negril leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nashville 82, Negril 33: Nashville leads by 49 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nashville 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: Nashville and Negril.

Your match

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

Nashville
Best match
46match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights 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.

Nashville in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
104 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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

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. Nashville: 1991-2020 normals, Nashville Airport (9.6 km from centre). Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNashvilleNegril
Official language-English, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC-5
Emergency number911Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation182 m10 m
Main airportNashville International Airport (BNA)10 km from centre122 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureNashvilleNegril
City population689,4474,500
People per km²506-
Museums within 10 km120
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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). 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. 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.

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.