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Photos: Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Plovdiv by Ad Meskens, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Negril or Plovdiv?

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

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • families

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

Choose Plovdiv for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Plovdiv’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, Plovdiv 7: Negril leads by 86 points.
Food & drink. Negril 36, Plovdiv 50: Plovdiv leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Negril 8, Plovdiv 66: Plovdiv leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Negril 40, Plovdiv 42: Plovdiv leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Negril 60, Plovdiv 68: Plovdiv leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Negril 35, Plovdiv 70: Plovdiv leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Negril 45, Plovdiv 40: Negril leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Negril 30, Plovdiv 65: Plovdiv leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Negril 15, Plovdiv 33: Plovdiv leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Negril 44, Plovdiv 78: Plovdiv leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Negril 33, Plovdiv 42: Plovdiv leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Negril 52, Plovdiv 44: Negril leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Negril and Plovdiv.

Your match

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

Negril
41match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Plovdiv
Best match
50match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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

Plovdiv in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
44 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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.

Plovdiv 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.

Plovdiv's sunshine is measured 75 km from the centre, at Kurdjali.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre). Plovdiv: 1997-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Plovdiv (1.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNegrilPlovdiv
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisBulgarian
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110112
Elevation10 m172 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsPlovdiv International Airport (PDV)12 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureNegrilPlovdiv
City population4,500333,994
People per km²-3,274
Museums within 10 km018
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.