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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach
Painted colonial houses in the Pelourinho, Salvador
SalvadorPainted colonial houses in the Pelourinho

Photos: Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Salvador by Paul R. Burley, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Negril or Salvador?

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

  • wellness
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Salvador for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Salvador’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, Salvador 84: Negril leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Negril 36, Salvador 66: Salvador leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Negril 8, Salvador 74: Salvador leads by 66 points.
Nightlife. Negril 40, Salvador 70: Salvador leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Negril 60, Salvador 52: Negril leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Negril 35, Salvador 56: Salvador leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Negril 45, Salvador 42: Negril leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Negril 30, Salvador 42: Salvador leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Negril 15, Salvador 42: Salvador leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Negril 44, Salvador 70: Salvador leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Negril 33, Salvador 63: Salvador leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Negril 52, Salvador 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 Salvador.

Your match

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

Negril
41match

Wins on wellness and beaches with your weighting.

Salvador
Best match
58match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink 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

Salvador in July

27 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
201 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
26 °Csea
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). Salvador: 1991-2020 normals, Salvador (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNegrilSalvador
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisPortuguese
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-3
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation10 m8 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsDeputado Luiz Eduardo Magalhães International Airport (SSA)20 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureNegrilSalvador
City population4,5002,417,678
People per km²-3,489
Museums within 10 km049
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.