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Your rainbow panorama on top of ARoS, Aarhus
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The Teatro Amazonas, Manaus
ManausThe Teatro Amazonas

Photos: Aarhus by Mozzihh, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Aarhus or Manaus?

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 Aarhus for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Manaus for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Manaus’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. Aarhus 34, Manaus 38: Manaus leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Aarhus 57, Manaus 56: Aarhus leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Aarhus 61, Manaus 46: Aarhus leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Aarhus 45, Manaus 42: Aarhus leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Aarhus 56, Manaus 86: Manaus leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Aarhus 63, Manaus 12: Aarhus leads by 51 points.
Good for families. Aarhus 70, Manaus 35: Aarhus leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Aarhus 75, Manaus 27: Aarhus leads by 48 points.
Shopping & style. Aarhus 47, Manaus 36: Aarhus leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Aarhus 22, Manaus 63: Manaus leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Aarhus 55, Manaus 54: Aarhus leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Aarhus 44, Manaus 20: Aarhus leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Aarhus and Manaus.

Your match

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

Aarhus
Best match
52match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

Manaus
43match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Aarhus in July

22 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
66 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
17 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Manaus in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Aarhus's temperatures are measured 30 km from the centre, at Tirstrup.

Aarhus 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. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Manaus: 1991-2020 normals, Manaus (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAarhusManaus
Official languageDanishPortuguese
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation6 m92 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre15 non-stop destinationsEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusManaus
City population290,5982,303,732
People per km²3,193202
Museums within 10 km1713
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.