Negril vs Portugal

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

Resort pool with loungers and umbrellas flanked by white buildings, ocean and coastline visible beyond.

Negril and Portugal, 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.

Negril guide · Portugal guide · How we score

By the numbers

Negril compared with Portugal
Negril	Measure	Portugal
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions (better)
6	Resorts in our catalog	16 (better)
★ 4.5 (better)	Average guest rating	★ 4.4
$127–$258/night pp	Nightly rates	$65–$333/night pp (better)
3 of 6	Adults-only resorts	0 of 16
In the hurricane belt	Hurricane exposure	No hurricane season (better)
May–June and September–November	Rainy season	November–March
December–April, with a sunset every night of the year	Sweet spot	June–September (the ocean stays refreshingly cool all 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

Negril

Portugal

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Negril and Portugal
Measure	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Negril · high °F	83	83	84	85	87	89	89	89	88	87	86	84
Portugal · high °F	61	62	65	68	72	79	84	84	80	74	67	62
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
Portugal · rain (in)	3.1	2.6	1.6	1.5	0.8	0.2	0.1	0.2	1.1	2.6	3.3	3.9

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