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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
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The Iguazu Falls in the green jungle, Puerto Iguazu
Puerto IguazuThe Iguazu Falls in the green jungle

Photos: Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Puerto Iguazu by Muhammed Ballan, Pexels License.

Negril or Puerto Iguazu?

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
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Puerto Iguazu for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Iguazu’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, Puerto Iguazu 5: Negril leads by 88 points.
Food & drink. Negril 36, Puerto Iguazu 28: Negril leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Negril 8, Puerto Iguazu 9: Puerto Iguazu leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Negril 40, Puerto Iguazu 14: Negril leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Negril 60, Puerto Iguazu 95: Puerto Iguazu leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Negril 35, Puerto Iguazu 33: Negril leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Negril 45, Puerto Iguazu 55: Puerto Iguazu leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Negril 30, Puerto Iguazu 54: Puerto Iguazu leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Negril 15, Puerto Iguazu 17: Puerto Iguazu leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Negril 44, Puerto Iguazu 48: Puerto Iguazu leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Negril 33, Puerto Iguazu 7: Negril leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Negril 52, Puerto Iguazu 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 Puerto Iguazu.

Your match

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

Negril
Best match
41match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Puerto Iguazu
33match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around 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

Puerto Iguazu in July

22 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
103 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 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). Puerto Iguazu: 1991-2020 normals, Iguazu Aerodrome (17.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNegrilPuerto Iguazu
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisSpanish
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-3
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110117 or 911
Elevation10 m162 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsCataratas Del Iguazú International Airport (IGR)18 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNegrilPuerto Iguazu
City population4,50054,903
Museums within 10 km00
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.