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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach
Camelback Mountain above the city, Scottsdale
ScottsdaleCamelback Mountain above the city

Photos: Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Scottsdale by Visitor7, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Negril or Scottsdale?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose Scottsdale for

  • shopping
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Scottsdale’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, Scottsdale 8: Negril leads by 85 points.
Food & drink. Negril 36, Scottsdale 46: Scottsdale leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Negril 8, Scottsdale 38: Scottsdale leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Negril 40, Scottsdale 52: Scottsdale leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Negril 60, Scottsdale 68: Scottsdale leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Negril 35, Scottsdale 50: Scottsdale leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Negril 45, Scottsdale 60: Scottsdale leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Negril 30, Scottsdale 20: Negril leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Negril 15, Scottsdale 60: Scottsdale leads by 45 points.
Affordability. Negril 44, Scottsdale 32: Negril leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Negril 33, Scottsdale 40: Scottsdale leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Negril 52, Scottsdale 72: Scottsdale leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Negril and Scottsdale.

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.

Scottsdale
Best match
46match

Wins on shopping and culture and sights 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

Scottsdale in July

41 °Cdaytime high
29 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
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). Scottsdale: 1991-2020 normals, Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport (13.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNegrilScottsdale
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican Patois-
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC-7
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110911
Elevation10 m380 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)10 km from centre149 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureNegrilScottsdale
City population4,500241,361
Museums within 10 km010
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.