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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach
The city from Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavik
ReykjavikThe city from Hallgrímskirkja

Photos: Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Reykjavik by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License.

Negril or Reykjavik?

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
  • prices

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

Choose Reykjavik for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Reykjavik’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, Reykjavik 12: Negril leads by 81 points.
Food & drink. Negril 36, Reykjavik 42: Reykjavik leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Negril 8, Reykjavik 25: Reykjavik leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Negril 40, Reykjavik 45: Reykjavik leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Negril 60, Reykjavik 92: Reykjavik leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Negril and Reykjavik are level on 35.
Good for families. Negril 45, Reykjavik 55: Reykjavik leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Negril 30, Reykjavik 55: Reykjavik leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Negril 15, Reykjavik 25: Reykjavik leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Negril 44, Reykjavik 6: Negril leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Negril 33, Reykjavik 45: Reykjavik leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Negril 52, Reykjavik 88: Reykjavik leads by 36 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Negril and Reykjavik.

Your match

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

Negril
41match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Reykjavik
Best match
44match

Wins on wellness 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

Reykjavik in July

15 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
50 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
11 °Csea
20 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). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNegrilReykjavik
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisIcelandic
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110112
Elevation10 m8 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNegrilReykjavik
City population4,500138,772
People per km²-569
Museums within 10 km023
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.