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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Negril or Puerto Princesa?

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
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Princesa’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 Princesa 58: Negril leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Negril 36, Puerto Princesa 38: Puerto Princesa leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Negril 8, Puerto Princesa 22: Puerto Princesa leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Negril 40, Puerto Princesa 26: Negril leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Negril 60, Puerto Princesa 80: Puerto Princesa leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Negril 35, Puerto Princesa 12: Negril leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Negril and Puerto Princesa are level on 45.
Getting around. Negril and Puerto Princesa are level on 30.
Shopping & style. Negril 15, Puerto Princesa 20: Puerto Princesa leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Negril 44, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Negril 33, Puerto Princesa 10: Negril leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Negril 52, Puerto Princesa 40: Negril leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Negril and Puerto Princesa.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors 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 Princesa in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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.

Puerto Princesa has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureNegrilPuerto Princesa
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110911
Elevation10 m98 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureNegrilPuerto Princesa
City population4,500316,384
People per km²-133
Museums within 10 km01
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.