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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Negril or Saint-Tropez?

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

  • prices
  • wellness
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • shopping
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Saint-Tropez’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, Saint-Tropez 82: Negril leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Negril 36, Saint-Tropez 48: Saint-Tropez leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Negril 8, Saint-Tropez 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Negril 40, Saint-Tropez 60: Saint-Tropez leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Negril 60, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Negril 35, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Negril 45, Saint-Tropez 42: Negril leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Negril 30, Saint-Tropez 32: Saint-Tropez leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Negril 15, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 49 points.
Affordability. Negril 44, Saint-Tropez 8: Negril leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Negril 33, Saint-Tropez 18: Negril leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Negril 52, Saint-Tropez 35: Negril leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Negril and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

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

Negril
41match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
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

Saint-Tropez in July

32 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
10 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
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.

Saint-Tropez 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.

Saint-Tropez's sunshine is measured 62 km from the centre, at Nice.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNegrilSaint-Tropez
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisFrench
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110112
Elevation10 m0 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureNegrilSaint-Tropez
City population4,5003,582
People per km²-320
Museums within 10 km04
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months3 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.