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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach
The White Tower from the promenade, Thessaloniki
ThessalonikiThe White Tower from the promenade

Photos: Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Thessaloniki by Destinygreece, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Negril or Thessaloniki?

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

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

Choose Thessaloniki for

  • culture and sights
  • food and drink
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Thessaloniki’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, Thessaloniki 55: Negril leads by 38 points.
Food & drink. Negril 36, Thessaloniki 77: Thessaloniki leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Negril 8, Thessaloniki 73: Thessaloniki leads by 65 points.
Nightlife. Negril 40, Thessaloniki 76: Thessaloniki leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Negril 60, Thessaloniki 66: Thessaloniki leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Negril 35, Thessaloniki 74: Thessaloniki leads by 39 points.
Good for families. Negril 45, Thessaloniki 50: Thessaloniki leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Negril 30, Thessaloniki 60: Thessaloniki leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Negril 15, Thessaloniki 50: Thessaloniki leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Negril 44, Thessaloniki 66: Thessaloniki leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Negril 33, Thessaloniki 52: Thessaloniki leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Negril 52, Thessaloniki 33: Negril leads by 19 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Negril and Thessaloniki.

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.

Thessaloniki
Best match
61match

Wins on culture and sights and food and drink 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

Thessaloniki in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
26 °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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNegrilThessaloniki
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisGreek
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 m6 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre90 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureNegrilThessaloniki
City population4,500309,617
People per km²-16,042
Museums within 10 km032
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. 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.