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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach
Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira

Photos: Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Negril or Porto?

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

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

Choose Porto for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Porto’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, Porto 40: Negril leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Negril 36, Porto 70: Porto leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Negril 8, Porto 68: Porto leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Negril 40, Porto 65: Porto leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Negril 60, Porto 64: Porto leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Negril 35, Porto 79: Porto leads by 44 points.
Good for families. Negril 45, Porto 52: Porto leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Negril 30, Porto 66: Porto leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Negril 15, Porto 52: Porto leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Negril 44, Porto 62: Porto leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Negril 33, Porto 52: Porto leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Negril 52, Porto 34: Negril leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Negril and Porto.

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.

Porto
Best match
59match

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

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNegrilPorto
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisPortuguese
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110112
Elevation10 m104 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre133 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureNegrilPorto
City population4,500273,476
People per km²-6,606
Museums within 10 km042
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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.