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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach
Whitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum, Palm Beach
Palm BeachWhitehall, Henry Flagler's mansion, now the Flagler Museum

Photos: Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Palm Beach by Khowald, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Negril or Palm Beach?

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 Negril for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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

Choose Palm Beach for

  • shopping
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Beach’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. Negril 93, Palm Beach 82: Negril leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Negril 36, Palm Beach 47: Palm Beach leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Negril 8, Palm Beach 45: Palm Beach leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Negril 40, Palm Beach 32: Negril leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Negril 60, Palm Beach 58: Negril leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Negril 35, Palm Beach 55: Palm Beach leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Negril 45, Palm Beach 62: Palm Beach leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Negril 30, Palm Beach 32: Palm Beach leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Negril 15, Palm Beach 66: Palm Beach leads by 51 points.
Affordability. Negril 44, Palm Beach 12: Negril leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Negril 33, Palm Beach 45: Palm Beach leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Negril 52, Palm Beach 55: Palm Beach leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Negril and Palm Beach.

Your match

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

Negril
41match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Palm Beach
Best match
49match

Wins on shopping and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Palm Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 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. Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre). Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (6.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNegrilPalm Beach
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican Patois-
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110911
Elevation10 m2 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNegrilPalm Beach
City population4,5009,245
People per km²-322
Museums within 10 km04
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.