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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
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Photos: Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Savannah by Chris M Morris, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Negril or Savannah?

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
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

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

Choose Savannah for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Savannah’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, Savannah 55: Negril leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Negril 36, Savannah 58: Savannah leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Negril 8, Savannah 68: Savannah leads by 60 points.
Nightlife. Negril 40, Savannah 52: Savannah leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Negril 60, Savannah 48: Negril leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Negril 35, Savannah 60: Savannah leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Negril 45, Savannah 50: Savannah leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Negril 30, Savannah 58: Savannah leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Negril 15, Savannah 42: Savannah leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Negril 44, Savannah 35: Negril leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Negril 33, Savannah 40: Savannah leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Negril 52, Savannah 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 Savannah.

Your match

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

Negril
41match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Savannah
Best match
51match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around 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

Savannah in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
144 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 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). Savannah: 1991-2020 normals, Savannah Airport (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNegrilSavannah
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 m15 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsSavannah Hilton Head International Airport (SAV)12 km from centre39 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureNegrilSavannah
City population4,500147,780
People per km²-524
Museums within 10 km019
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 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.