Negril vs St. Lucia

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Negril and St. Lucia, 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.

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By the numbers

Negril compared with St. Lucia
Negril	Measure	St. Lucia
Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution	U.S. travel advisory	Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution
6	Resorts in our catalog	16 (better)
★ 4.5	Average guest rating	★ 4.5
$127–$258/night pp	Nightly rates	$89–$810/night pp (better)
3 of 6	Adults-only resorts	8 of 16
In the hurricane belt	Hurricane exposure	In the hurricane belt
May–June and September–November	Rainy season	June–November, heaviest September–October
December–April, with a sunset every night of the year	Sweet spot	December–April

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

St. Lucia

Weather, month by month

Month-by-month average high temperature and rainfall for Negril and St. Lucia
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
St. Lucia · high °F	84	84	85	87	88	88	88	88	88	87	86	84
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
St. Lucia · rain (in)	3.7	2.6	2.4	3.4	4.4	7.5	8.1	8.9	8.4	9.2	7.7	5.2

Approximate climate normals for Seven Mile Beach and Northwest coast (Rodney Bay–Soufrière): planning guidance, not a forecast. A deeper tint is a higher number, read within its own row.