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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach
Elizabeth Quay and the centre of Perth, Perth
PerthElizabeth Quay and the centre of Perth

Photos: Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Perth by Samuel Wiki, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Negril or Perth?

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
  • wellness
  • beaches

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

Choose Perth for

  • culture and sights
  • families
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Perth’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, Perth 86: Negril leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Negril 36, Perth 58: Perth leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Negril 8, Perth 42: Perth leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Negril 40, Perth 42: Perth leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Negril 60, Perth 72: Perth leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Negril 35, Perth 48: Perth leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Negril 45, Perth 74: Perth leads by 29 points.
Getting around. Negril 30, Perth 55: Perth leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Negril 15, Perth 44: Perth leads by 29 points.
Affordability. Negril 44, Perth 28: Negril leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Negril 33, Perth 50: Perth leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Negril 52, Perth 38: Negril leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Negril and Perth.

Your match

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

Negril
41match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Perth
Best match
53match

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

Perth in July

19 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
20 °Csea
10 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). Perth: 1991-2020 normals, Perth (7.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNegrilPerth
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisEnglish
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110000
Elevation10 m2 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsPerth International Airport (PER)10 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNegrilPerth
City population4,5002,141,834
People per km²-334
Museums within 10 km015
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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.