Aruba vs Negril

Swim-up bar with bartender serving drinks in resort pool surrounded by white cabanas, palm trees, and high-rise buildings under clear sky.

Aruba and Negril, side by side: live travel advisories, our resort catalog's real guest data, and each destination's honest weather picture. Everything you need to break the tie.

Aruba guide · Negril guide · How we score

By the numbers

Aruba compared with Negril
Aruba	Measure	Negril
Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
9 (better)	Resorts in our catalog	6
★ 4.4	Average guest rating	★ 4.5 (better)
$143–$332/night pp	Nightly rates	$127–$258/night pp (better)
2 of 9	Adults-only resorts	3 of 6
Outside the hurricane belt (better)	Hurricane exposure	In the hurricane belt
October–December, and 'rainy' is generous: this is one of the driest islands in the Caribbean	Rainy season	May–June and September–November
Year-round; January–March is peak season and priced like it	Sweet spot	December–April, with a sunset every night of the year

Advisory levels sync from travel.state.gov; catalog figures reflect the resorts we've researched, not every hotel in the country. A marked row is one we are willing to call; rows without a mark are a matter of taste, or we have no comparable figure for both sides.

On the map

Aruba

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Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Aruba and Negril
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Aruba · high °F	85	85	86	87	88	89	89	90	90	89	87	85
Negril · high °F	83	83	84	85	87	89	89	89	88	87	86	84
Aruba · rain (in)	1.5	0.8	0.4	0.5	0.6	0.7	1.3	1.0	1.8	3.0	3.7	3.2
Negril · rain (in)	0.8	0.6	0.7	1.3	4.2	3.8	2.6	3.8	5.5	7.0	3.2	1.4

Approximate climate normals for Palm Beach / Eagle Beach and Seven Mile Beach: planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.