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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
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Photos: Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Rehoboth Beach by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Negril or Rehoboth Beach?

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
  • prices

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

Choose Rehoboth Beach for

  • shopping
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Rehoboth Beach’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, Rehoboth Beach 70: Negril leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Negril 36, Rehoboth Beach 44: Rehoboth Beach leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Negril 8, Rehoboth Beach 14: Rehoboth Beach leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Negril and Rehoboth Beach are level on 40.
Nature & outdoors. Negril 60, Rehoboth Beach 50: Negril leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Negril 35, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Negril 45, Rehoboth Beach 70: Rehoboth Beach leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Negril 30, Rehoboth Beach 50: Rehoboth Beach leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Negril 15, Rehoboth Beach 45: Rehoboth Beach leads by 30 points.
Affordability. Negril 44, Rehoboth Beach 32: Negril leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Negril 33, Rehoboth Beach 28: Negril leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Negril 52, Rehoboth Beach 32: Negril leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Negril and Rehoboth Beach.

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.

Rehoboth Beach
Best match
44match

Wins on shopping 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

Rehoboth Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
92 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
23 °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.

Rehoboth Beach 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). Rehoboth Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Georgetown / Rogers Development (24.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNegrilRehoboth Beach
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican Patois-
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110911
Elevation10 m5 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)56 km from centre4 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureNegrilRehoboth Beach
City population4,5001,108
People per km²-258
Museums within 10 km02
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 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.