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Seven Mile Beach, Negril
NegrilSeven Mile Beach
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Negril by gustavo.kunst, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Negril or Yokohama?

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

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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, Yokohama 46: Negril leads by 47 points.
Food & drink. Negril 36, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Negril 8, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 47 points.
Nightlife. Negril 40, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Negril 60, Yokohama 66: Yokohama leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Negril 35, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 51 points.
Good for families. Negril 45, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 41 points.
Getting around. Negril 30, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 57 points.
Shopping & style. Negril 15, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 45 points.
Affordability. Negril 44, Yokohama 55: Yokohama leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Negril 33, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Negril 52, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Negril and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Negril
41match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around 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

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °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.

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Negril: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (51.8 km from centre). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNegrilYokohama
Official languageEnglish, Jamaican PatoisJapanese
CurrencyJamaican Dollar (JMD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAB116 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+9
Emergency numberPolice 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110Police 110, fire 119
Elevation10 m24 m
Main airportSangster International Airport (MBJ)52 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNegrilYokohama
City population4,5003,757,630
People per km²-8,585
Museums within 10 km038
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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

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.