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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach
The Oriental Pearl Tower and Shanghai Tower, Shanghai
ShanghaiThe Oriental Pearl Tower and Shanghai Tower

Photos: Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Shanghai by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Negril or Shanghai?

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

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

Choose Shanghai for

  • shopping
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Shanghai’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, Shanghai 10: Negril leads by 83 points.
Food & drink. Negril 36, Shanghai 88: Shanghai leads by 52 points.
Culture & sights. Negril 8, Shanghai 72: Shanghai leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Negril 40, Shanghai 80: Shanghai leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Negril 60, Shanghai 25: Negril leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Negril 35, Shanghai 90: Shanghai leads by 55 points.
Good for families. Negril 45, Shanghai 80: Shanghai leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Negril 30, Shanghai 85: Shanghai leads by 55 points.
Shopping & style. Negril 15, Shanghai 82: Shanghai leads by 67 points.
Affordability. Negril 44, Shanghai 55: Shanghai leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Negril 33, Shanghai 66: Shanghai leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Negril 52, Shanghai 55: Shanghai leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Negril and Shanghai.

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.

Shanghai
Best match
66match

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

Shanghai in July

33 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
151 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
26 °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). Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNegrilShanghai
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisPutonghua
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation10 m4 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre207 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureNegrilShanghai
City population4,50024,870,895
People per km²-3,922
Museums within 10 km045
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 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.