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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
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The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia
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Photos: Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Sofia by Jose Ligero Loarte, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Negril or Sofia?

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
  • wellness
  • families

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

Choose Sofia for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Sofia’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, Sofia 5: Negril leads by 88 points.
Food & drink. Negril 36, Sofia 45: Sofia leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Negril 8, Sofia 60: Sofia leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Negril 40, Sofia 50: Sofia leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Negril 60, Sofia 80: Sofia leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Negril 35, Sofia 60: Sofia leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Negril 45, Sofia 40: Negril leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Negril 30, Sofia 65: Sofia leads by 35 points.
Shopping & style. Negril 15, Sofia 38: Sofia leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Negril 44, Sofia 78: Sofia leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Negril 33, Sofia 50: Sofia leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Negril 52, Sofia 45: Negril leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Negril and Sofia.

Your match

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

Negril
41match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Sofia
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

Sofia in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
64 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 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). Sofia: 1991-2020 normals, Sofia Observ. (7.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNegrilSofia
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisBulgarian
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110112
Elevation10 m560 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsSofia Airport (SOF)8 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureNegrilSofia
City population4,5001,213,134
People per km²-2,466
Museums within 10 km042
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. 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.