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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach
The Great Mosque with the mountains behind, Tirana
TiranaThe Great Mosque with the mountains behind

Photos: Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tirana by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Negril or Tirana?

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 Tirana for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Tirana’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, Tirana 46: Negril leads by 47 points.
Food & drink. Negril 36, Tirana 57: Tirana leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Negril 8, Tirana 42: Tirana leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Negril 40, Tirana 58: Tirana leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Negril 60, Tirana 62: Tirana leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Negril 35, Tirana 64: Tirana leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Negril 45, Tirana 40: Negril leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Negril 30, Tirana 54: Tirana leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Negril 15, Tirana 32: Tirana leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Negril 44, Tirana 76: Tirana leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Negril 33, Tirana 32: Negril leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Negril 52, Tirana 27: Negril leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Negril and Tirana.

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.

Tirana
Best match
49match

Wins on culture and sights and prices 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

Tirana in July

31 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
43 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
24 °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). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNegrilTirana
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisAlbanian
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Lek (ALL)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110112
Elevation10 m110 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureNegrilTirana
City population4,500389,323
People per km²-9,314
Museums within 10 km011
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. 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.