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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach
White sand and turquoise water at Pensacola Beach, Pensacola
PensacolaWhite sand and turquoise water at Pensacola Beach

Photos: Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Pensacola by Jason Meredith, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Negril or Pensacola?

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

  • wellness
  • getting around
  • beaches

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

Choose Pensacola for

  • culture and sights
  • families
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Pensacola’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, Pensacola 84: Negril leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Negril 36, Pensacola 45: Pensacola leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Negril 8, Pensacola 45: Pensacola leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Negril 40, Pensacola 42: Pensacola leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Negril 60, Pensacola 62: Pensacola leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Negril 35, Pensacola 45: Pensacola leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Negril 45, Pensacola 62: Pensacola leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Negril 30, Pensacola 18: Negril leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Negril 15, Pensacola 28: Pensacola leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Negril and Pensacola are level on 44.
Live music & performing arts. Negril 33, Pensacola 36: Pensacola leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Negril 52, Pensacola 30: Negril leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Negril and Pensacola.

Your match

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

Negril
41match

Wins on wellness and getting around with your weighting.

Pensacola
Best match
45match

Wins on culture and sights and families 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

Pensacola in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 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). Pensacola: 1991-2020 normals, Pensacola / Pleasant Grove (12.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNegrilPensacola
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican Patois-
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110911
Elevation10 m31 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsPensacola International Airport (PNS)6 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNegrilPensacola
City population4,50054,312
People per km²-515
Museums within 10 km05
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months7 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.