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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach
Valletta from the water, Valletta
VallettaValletta from the water

Photos: Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Valletta by Pho Tomass, Pexels License.

Negril or Valletta?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Valletta for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Valletta’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, Valletta 68: Negril leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Negril 36, Valletta 55: Valletta leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Negril 8, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 68 points.
Nightlife. Negril 40, Valletta 46: Valletta leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Negril 60, Valletta 56: Negril leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Negril 35, Valletta 76: Valletta leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Negril 45, Valletta 58: Valletta leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Negril 30, Valletta 62: Valletta leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Negril 15, Valletta 38: Valletta leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Negril 44, Valletta 50: Valletta leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Negril 33, Valletta 44: Valletta leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Negril 52, Valletta 32: Negril leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Negril and Valletta.

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.

Valletta
Best match
55match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips 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

Valletta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °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). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNegrilValletta
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110112
Elevation10 m56 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureNegrilValletta
City population4,5005,197
People per km²-6,496
Museums within 10 km016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months6 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.