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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach
The old town below the fortress, Salzburg
SalzburgThe old town below the fortress

Photos: Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Salzburg by Leonhard Niederwimmer, Pexels License.

Negril or Salzburg?

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
  • prices

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

Choose Salzburg for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Salzburg’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, Salzburg 35: Negril leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Negril 36, Salzburg 45: Salzburg leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Negril 8, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Negril 40, Salzburg 25: Negril leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Negril 60, Salzburg 86: Salzburg leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Negril 35, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 45 points.
Good for families. Negril 45, Salzburg 65: Salzburg leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Negril 30, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Negril 15, Salzburg 48: Salzburg leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Negril 44, Salzburg 32: Negril leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Negril 33, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Negril 52, Salzburg 55: Salzburg leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Negril and Salzburg.

Your match

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

Negril
41match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Salzburg
Best match
58match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts 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

Salzburg in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNegrilSalzburg
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110112
Elevation10 m424 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNegrilSalzburg
City population4,500155,021
People per km²-2,360
Museums within 10 km038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.